Tag: Bethel
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Stay at Bethel – Genesis 35:15-16
Genesis 35:15, 16“And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel. And they journeyed from Bethel…” There’s something that stops you when you read that. Jacob names the place Bethel. The house of God. The place where God met him again. The place of renewal, of promise, of fresh clarity.…
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The Oak of Weeping – Genesis 35:8
Genesis 35:8But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth. It is striking where this verse shows up. Jacob is back in the land. The idols are gone. Bethel has been regained. His understanding is deeper now. He is no longer just…
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Kept on the Way – Genesis 35:5
Genesis 35:5And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. I love the simplicity of that first phrase: And they journeyed. They buried the idols. They handed over the junk. They stopped lingering in Shechem. And then they…
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Back to Bethel – Genesis 35:1
Genesis 35:1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. His daughter raped, his sons mass murderers, Jacob’s family falling apart, the whole place stinking in his estimation, things…
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From Bethel to Peniel – Genesis 32:21-23
Genesis 32:21–23So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company. And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that…
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From Separation to the House of God – Genesis 28:17-19
Genesis 28:17-19 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. 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,…
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Back to Where It Was Real – Genesis 13:1-4
Genesis 13:1-4 And Abram went up out of Egypt… … he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his…
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Altars and Tents – Genesis 12:7-8
Genesis 12:7, 8 … and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him. And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent… … having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and…