Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a ◄tamarisk tree/kind of tree called esel► there, and he worshiped the eternal God there.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
34Abraham lived in the land of the Philistine people-group for a long time.
Cross References
Genesis 12:8From Shechem, Abram and his family traveled to the hills that were east of Bethel town. Bethel town was to the west of where they set up their tent, and Ai town was further to the east. There he built another stone altar and offered a sacrifice and worshiped Yahweh there.
Genesis 26:25So Isaac built a stone altar there and offered a sacrifice to worship Yahweh. He and his servants set up their tents there, and his servants started to dig a well.
Deuteronomy 16:21“When you make an altar to worship Yahweh our God, do not put next to it any wooden statue that represents the goddess Asherah.
Judges 3:7The Israelis did things that Yahweh said were very evil. They forgot about Yahweh, their God, and they started to worship the idols that represented the god Baal and the goddess Asherah.
Isaiah 40:28Have you never heard and have you never understood that Yahweh is the everlasting God; he is the one who created the earth, even the most distant places on the earth. He never becomes weak or weary, and no one can find out how much he understands.
Jeremiah 10:10But Yahweh is the only true God; he is the all-powerful God, the king who rules forever. When he is angry, all the earth shakes/quakes; and the people of the nations cannot endure what he does when he is angry with them.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:23-33
Abimelech's Covenant with Abraham. ( b. c. 1892.) 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham… Read the whole commentary →