Genesis 28:17

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Genesis 28:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

16 When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

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

18 Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,

19 and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 3:6

Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

Judges 13:22

“We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”

Matthew 17:6

When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown in terror.

Luke 2:9

Just then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

Luke 8:35

So the people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man whom the demons had left, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

Revelation 1:17

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,

Genesis 28:22

And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”

Genesis 35:1

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

Genesis 35:3

Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Genesis 35:4

So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.

Genesis 35:5

As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.

Genesis 35:6

So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 35:7

There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.

Genesis 35:8

Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.

Genesis 35:9

After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

Genesis 35:10

And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.

Genesis 35:11

And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.

Genesis 35:12

The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”

Genesis 35:13

Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.

2 Chronicles 5:14

so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

1 Timothy 3:15

in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

Hebrews 10:21

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

1 Peter 4:17

For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?