Jacob Returns to Bethel
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.” Gen 31:13Hos 12:4Psa 91:15Deu 32:36Gen 31:3Gen 35:7Ecc 5:4-6Exo 2:15
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. Exo 19:10Exo 19:14Ezk 18:31Jas 4:81Pe 2:1-22Co 7:1Ezk 36:25Gen 18:19 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.” Isa 43:2Gen 31:3Gen 32:7Gen 31:42Pro 3:6Gen 28:15Gen 32:24Isa 30:19
So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak 1near Shechem. Jdg 9:6Deu 7:25Exo 32:2-4Exo 32:20Isa 30:22Jdg 8:24-27Hos 2:13Isa 2:20
As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons. Exo 23:272Ch 17:10Jos 5:1Psa 14:5Exo 15:15-16Exo 34:24Jos 2:9-111Sa 11:7 So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan. Gen 28:19Gen 12:8Gen 28:22Gen 48:3Jdg 1:22-26 There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, 2 because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother. Gen 28:13Gen 35:1Gen 35:3Ecc 5:4-5Exo 17:15Ezk 48:35Gen 28:19Gen 28:22
Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak 3below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth. 4 Gen 24:591Sa 31:13Jdg 2:1Jdg 2:5
After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, 5 God appeared to him again and blessed him. Gen 18:1Gen 26:2Gen 35:1Gen 12:7Gen 17:1Gen 28:13Gen 31:11-13Gen 31:3 And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, 6 you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel. 7” So God named him Israel. Gen 17:5Gen 32:27-28Gen 17:151Ki 18:312Ki 17:34
And God told him, “I am God Almighty. 8 Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you. Gen 17:1Gen 22:17Gen 9:1Exo 6:3Gen 17:5-72Co 6:18Gen 17:16Gen 28:3-4 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.” Gen 12:7Gen 28:13Gen 26:3-4Gen 13:14-17Gen 48:4Exo 3:8Gen 15:18Jos 6:1-21
Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him. Gen 17:22Gen 18:33Gen 11:5Jdg 13:20Jdg 6:21Luk 24:31
So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil. Gen 28:18-191Sa 7:12Exo 17:15Gen 31:45Gen 35:20 Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel. 9 Gen 28:19
Benjamin Born, Rachel Dies
Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult. Mic 5:2Gen 48:71Ch 2:191Ti 2:152Ki 5:19Gen 3:16Gen 35:19Mat 2:1 During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.” Gen 30:241Sa 4:19-21
And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. 10 But his father called him Benjamin. 11 1Ch 4:91Sa 4:20-21Act 7:59Luk 12:20Luk 23:46Exo 12:7Gen 30:1Gen 42:38
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). Mic 5:2Gen 48:7Mat 2:6Rut 1:2Rut 4:11Mat 2:1Jos 19:15Mat 2:16-18 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day. 1Sa 10:22Sa 18:17-18Gen 35:14Gen 35:9
The Sons of Jacob
(1 Chronicles 2:1–2)
Israel again set out and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder. Mic 4:8Luk 2:8 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. 1Ch 5:1Lev 18:81Co 5:12Sa 16:21-222Sa 20:3Gen 49:1-281Ch 12:23-401Ch 2:1-2
Jacob had twelve sons:
The sons of Leah were Reuben the firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. Gen 30:18-20Gen 29:32-35Gen 46:8-15Exo 1:2-4Gen 33:2
The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin. Gen 30:22-24Gen 35:16-18Gen 46:19-22
The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali. Gen 30:4-8Gen 37:2Gen 46:23-25
And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. Gen 25:20Gen 30:9-13Gen 31:18Gen 35:18Gen 46:16-18Gen 28:2
These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
The Death of Isaac
Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. Gen 13:18Gen 23:19Gen 18:1Gen 23:2Jos 15:132Sa 2:12Sa 2:112Sa 2:3
And Isaac lived 180 years. Gen 25:7Gen 50:26Gen 47:28 Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. Gen 15:15Gen 49:33Gen 49:31Gen 25:7-9Gen 23:19-20Gen 25:17Gen 27:41Gen 3:19