Genesis 12:8
He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the LORD’s name.
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9Abram travelled, still going on towards the South.
Cross References
Genesis 4:26A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on the LORD’s name.
Genesis 13:4to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the LORD’s name.
Genesis 26:25He built an altar there, and called on the LORD’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
Genesis 31:25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
Genesis 35:3Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
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 →