Genesis 33:20
and he erected there an altar and called it El, God of Israel.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 12:7The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” There Abram built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:18Then Abram moved his tent and lived in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 32:28Then he said, “Your name will be no longer Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with mortals and have won.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 33:17-20
16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. 17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. 18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. 19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money. 20 And he erected there… Read the whole commentary →