Genesis 46:1
So Israel brake up, with all that he had, and came in to Beer-sheba,—and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2And God said to Israel in the visions of the night, and he said—Jacob! Jacob! And he said—Behold me!
Cross References
Genesis 8:20And Noah builded an altar to Yahweh,—and took of all the clean beasts and of all the clean birds, and caused ascending Sacrifices to go up on the altar.
Genesis 21:14So Abraham rose up early in the morning—and took bread and a skin of water and gave unto hagar,—putting them on her shoulder and the child, and sent her forth,—so she went her way and wandered, in the desert of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 21:33Then planted he a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba,—and called there on the name of Yahweh the age-abiding GOD.
Genesis 26:22And he moved on from thence and digged another well, and they disputed not for it,—so he called the name thereof. Rehoboth, and said, For, now, hath Yahweh made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
Genesis 28:13and lo! Yahweh, standing by him,—and he said, I, am Yahweh, God of Abraham thy father and God of Isaac,—The land whereon, thou, art lying, to thee, will I give it and to thy seed;
Genesis 31:53The Gods of Abraham and the Gods of Nahor judge betwixt us—the Gods of their fathers. And Jacob sware by the Dread of his father Isaac:
Matthew Henry on Genesis 46:1
Jacob is here removing to Egypt in his old age, forced thither by a famine, and invited thither by a son. Here, I. God sends him thither, ver. 1-4 . II. All his family goes with him, ver. 5-27 . III. Joseph bids him welcome, ver. 28-34 . Read the whole commentary →