Genesis 12:8
Then he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and set up camp there. Bethel was to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar to the Lord there and worshiped him.
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9After that he went on his way, heading towards the Negev.
Cross References
Genesis 4:26Later Seth had a son named Enosh, because at that time people began to worship the Lord by name.
Genesis 13:4This was where he'd first built an altar. He worshiped the Lord there as he had done previously.
Genesis 26:25Isaac built an altar and worshiped the Lord. He also set up his tent, and his servants dug a well there.
Genesis 31:25Jacob had set up his tents in the hill country of Gilead when Laban caught up with him, so Laban and his relatives did the same.
Genesis 35:3We have to get ready and go to Bethel so I can build an altar to God who answered me in my time of trouble. He has been with me wherever I went.”
Genesis 35:15Jacob called the place Bethel, because he had spoken with God there.
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 →