Genesis 12:8
And he moved on from thence towards the hill country, on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent,—with Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east, and built there an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
9Thus Abram brake up, again and again, towards the South.
Cross References
Genesis 4:26And to Seth—to him also, was born a son, and he called his name Enosh,—then, was a beginning made, to call on the name of Yahweh.
Genesis 13:4unto the place of the altar, which he made there at first,—and Abram called there, on the name of Yahweh.
Genesis 26:25So he builded there all altar and called on the name of Yahweh, and spread out there, his tent,—and the servants of Isaac cut out there a well.
Genesis 31:25So then Laban came up with Jacob,—Jacob, having pitched his tent in the mountain, Laban, also, with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead.
Genesis 35:3And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el,—that I may make there an altar to the GOD who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way that I went.
Genesis 35:15And Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him, Beth-el.
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 →