Genesis 12:8
From there he moved to the hill country to the east of Bethel, where he pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.
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9Then Abram continued journeying, going toward the Negev.
Cross References
Genesis 4:26A son was born to Seth and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of Yahweh.
Genesis 13:4He went to the place where the altar was that he had built previously. Here he called on the name of Yahweh.
Genesis 26:25Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of Yahweh. There he pitched his tent, and his servants dug a well.
Genesis 31:25Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country. Laban also camped with his relatives in the hill country of Gilead. + 31:25 Some modern versions have: Laban also camped in the hill country of Gilead .
Genesis 35:3Then let us depart and go up to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me wherever I have gone.”
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 →