Genesis 12:8
From there he moved on to the hill at the east of Bethel and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and there too he built an altar to the Lord and prayed to him.
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In Context
9Abram moved on, going from place to place toward the Nagreb.
Cross References
Genesis 4:26Seth too had a son. He named him Enosh. That was when people began worshipping in the name of Lord.
Genesis 13:4and had set up the alter to worship the Lord.
Genesis 26:25Isaac built an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there. There also Isaac’s slaves dug a well.
Genesis 31:25When Laban caught up with Jacob, Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country; and Laban with his relatives encamped in same hill country of Gilead.
Genesis 35:3Let us arise and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the journey which I was making.”
Genesis 35:15Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.
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 →