Genesis 28:17
and he fears and says, “How fearful [is] this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.”
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16And Jacob awakens out of his sleep and says, “Surely YHWH is in this place, and I did not know”;
Cross References
Genesis 28:22then this stone which I have made a standing pillar is a house of God, and all that You give to me—tithing I tithe to You.”
Genesis 35:7and he builds there an altar, and proclaims at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed to him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.
Exodus 3:6He also says, “I [am] the God of your father, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob”; and Moses hides his face, for he is afraid to look toward God.
2 Chronicles 5:14and the priests have not been able to stand to minister from the presence of the cloud, for the glory of YHWH has filled the house of God.
Matthew 17:6And the disciples having heard, fell on their face, and were exceedingly afraid,
Luke 8:35and they came forth to see what was come to pass, and they came to Jesus, and found the man sitting, out of whom the demons had gone forth, clothed, and right-minded, at the feet of Jesus, and they were afraid;
Matthew Henry on Genesis 28:17-22
Jacob's Vow. ( b. c. 1760.) 16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. 17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the… Read the whole commentary →