Genesis 12:8
Later on, Abram left Shekem and went down south to the hill country that was on the east side of a town called Bethel. And he made his camp between Bethel and another town called Ai. Ai was on the east side and Bethel was on the west side of his camp. Right there Abram built another stone altar and prayed to God using God's name.
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In The King James Version
In Context
9Then Abram travelled further south to a dry country called “The Negev.”
Cross References
Genesis 4:26Seth grew up and had a son and they named him Enosh. It was about this time that people started to pray to the Lord and show him respect.
Genesis 26:25Isaac made an altar table made of stones, and burnt an animal on it to show the Lord respect. And it was there that Isaac called out to God and used God's name. Isaac got his workers to dig another waterhole, so that they could camp there for a while.
Genesis 35:15God had talked to Jacob there and so Jacob called that place Bethel which means God's House in their language.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:7-10
Abram's Devotion. ( b. c. 1921.) 6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him. 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord , and called upon the… Read the whole commentary →