Genesis 28:17
And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
16And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
Cross References
Genesis 28:22and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Genesis 35:7And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Exodus 3:6Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
2 Chronicles 5:14so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
Matthew 17:6And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
Luke 8:35And they went out to see what had come to pass; and they came to Jesus, and found the man, from whom the devils were gone out, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus: and they were afraid.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 28:17-22
Jacob's Vow. ( b. c. 1760.) 16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. 17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the… Read the whole commentary →