Genesis 35:16
They journeyed on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. She had hard labor.
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15Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman he said, 1 “I will greatly multiply your pain in having children; 1 it is in pain that you will give birth to children. 1 Your desire will be for your husband, but he will rule over you.”
Genesis 48:7But as for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, while there was still some distance to go to Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
2 Kings 5:19Elisha said to him, “Go in peace.” So Naaman left.
Psalms 132:6See, we heard about it in Ephrathah; 1 we found it in the fields of Jaar. 1
Matthew 2:1After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, learned men from the east arrived in Jerusalem saying,
Matthew 2:18“A voice was heard in Ramah, 1 weeping and great mourning, 1 Rachel weeping for her children, 1 and she refused to be comforted, because they were no more.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 35:7-16
Jacob's Arrival at Bethel. ( b. c. 1732.) 6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the people that were with him. 7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-Beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. 8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. 9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.… Read the whole commentary →