God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.” Gen 31:13Hos 12:4Psa 91:15Deu 32:36Gen 31:3Gen 35:7Ecc 5:4-6Exo 2:15
Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away 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 Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.” Isa 43:2Gen 31:3Gen 32:7Gen 31:42Pro 3:6Gen 28:15Gen 32:24Isa 30:19
They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. Jdg 9:6Deu 7:25Exo 32:2-4Exo 32:20Isa 30:22Jdg 8:24-27Hos 2:13Isa 2:20 They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob. Exo 23:272Ch 17:10Jos 5:1Psa 14:5Exo 15:15-16Exo 34:24Jos 2:9-111Sa 11:7 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. Gen 28:19Gen 12:8Gen 28:22Gen 48:3Jdg 1:22-26 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother. Gen 28:13Gen 35:1Gen 35:3Ecc 5:4-5Exo 17:15Ezk 48:35Gen 28:19Gen 28:22 Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth. Gen 24:591Sa 31:13Jdg 2:1Jdg 2:5
God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him. Gen 18:1Gen 26:2Gen 35:1Gen 12:7Gen 17:1Gen 28:13Gen 31:11-13Gen 31:3 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel. Gen 17:5Gen 32:27-28Gen 17:151Ki 18:312Ki 17:34 God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body. Gen 17:1Gen 22:17Gen 9:1Exo 6:3Gen 17:5-72Co 6:18Gen 17:16Gen 28:3-4 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.” Gen 12:7Gen 28:13Gen 26:3-4Gen 13:14-17Gen 48:4Exo 3:8Gen 15:18Jos 6:1-21
God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him. Gen 17:22Gen 18:33Gen 11:5Jdg 13:20Jdg 6:21Luk 24:31 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it. Gen 28:18-191Sa 7:12Exo 17:15Gen 31:45Gen 35:20 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”. Gen 28:19
They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor. Mic 5:2Gen 48:71Ch 2:191Ti 2:152Ki 5:19Gen 3:16Gen 35:19Mat 2:1 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.” Gen 30:241Sa 4:19-21
As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, 1 but his father named him Benjamin. 2 1Ch 4:91Sa 4:20-21Act 7:59Luk 12:20Luk 23:46Exo 12:7Gen 30:1Gen 42:38 Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called 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. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day. 1Sa 10:22Sa 18:17-18Gen 35:14Gen 35:9 Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder. Mic 4:8Luk 2:8 While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. 1Ch 5:1Lev 18:81Co 5:12Sa 16:21-222Sa 20:3Gen 49:1-281Ch 12:23-401Ch 2:1-2
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), 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: Joseph and Benjamin. Gen 30:22-24Gen 35:16-18Gen 46:19-22 The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali. Gen 30:4-8Gen 37:2Gen 46:23-25 The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram. Gen 25:20Gen 30:9-13Gen 31:18Gen 35:18Gen 46:16-18Gen 28:2 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners. Gen 13:18Gen 23:19Gen 18:1Gen 23:2Jos 15:132Sa 2:12Sa 2:112Sa 2:3
The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years. Gen 25:7Gen 50:26Gen 47:28 Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him. Gen 15:15Gen 49:33Gen 49:31Gen 25:7-9Gen 23:19-20Gen 25:17Gen 27:41Gen 3:19