Genesis 31:48
Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
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In Context
47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
49and Mizpah, for he said, “The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
Cross References
Genesis 31:23He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
Deuteronomy 3:16To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
Joshua 22:27but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell our children in time to come, ‘You have no portion in the LORD.’
Joshua 22:34The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that the LORD is God.”
Judges 10:3After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 31:44-55
Jacob's Covenant with Laban. ( b. c. 1739.) 43 And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? 44 Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. 45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46 And Jacob said unto his… Read the whole commentary →