Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
Built
El-beth-el
Bible References
Built
Genesis 35:1
And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to thee when thou fled from the face of Esau thy brother.
Ecclesiastes 5:4
When thou vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which thou vow.
El-beth-el
Genesis 28:13
And, behold, LORD stood above it, and said, I am LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which thou lay, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed.
Exodus 17:15
And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it LORD-nissi.
Judges 6:24
Then Gideon built an altar there to LORD, and called it LORD-shalom. To this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.