Genesis 28:17-19

Jacob's Dream

17 And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."

18 So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up c for a pillar d and poured oil on the top of it. 19 He called the name of that place e Bethel, 1 but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 31:13
    I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.'
    Genesis 31:45
    So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
    Genesis 35:14
    And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.
    1 Samuel 7:12
    Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, "Till now the Lord has helped us.
    2 Samuel 18:18
    Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.
  2. Cross References
    Leviticus 8:10 - 11
    Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
    Numbers 7:1
    On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 35:7
    And there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
    Judges 1:23
    And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. ( Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
    Judges 1:26
    And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.
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