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Genesis 28:15-22

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15 Behold, 1I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and 2will bring you back to this land. For I will 3not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is 4in this place, and I did not know it."
17 And he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."
18 So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up 5for a pillar 6and poured oil on the top of it.
19 He called the name of that place 7Bethel,[a] but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
20 Then Jacob 8made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,
21 9so that I come again to my father's house in peace, 10then the LORD shall be my God,
22 and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, 11shall be God's house. And 12of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you."
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Genesis 28:15-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 28

In this chapter an account is given of the charge Isaac gave to Jacob not to marry a Canaanitess, but to go to Padanaram, and take a wife from his mother's family, and of his blessing him before he sent him away, Ge 28:1-5; of the notice that Esau took of this blessing and charge, which led him to take a wife of the family of Ishmael, Ge 28:6-9; of the dream of the ladder, which Jacob had in his way to Haran, Ge 28:10-12; of the blessing which God conferred upon him there, Ge 28:13-15; of the awfulness of the place upon his awaking, and of his erecting a pillar in it, and giving a name to it, Ge 28:16-19; and of the vow he made to God, should he be supplied with the necessaries of life, and be kept in safety by him, Ge 28:20-22.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 12

  • 1. Genesis 26:24; Genesis 31:3
  • 2. Genesis 35:6
  • 3. 1 Kings 8:57
  • 4. Exodus 3:5; Joshua 5:15
  • 5. Genesis 31:13, 45; Genesis 35:14; [1 Samuel 7:12; 2 Samuel 18:18]
  • 6. [Leviticus 8:10, 11; Numbers 7:1]
  • 7. Genesis 35:7; Judges 1:23, 26
  • 8. Genesis 31:13
  • 9. [Judges 11:31; 2 Samuel 15:7-9]
  • 10. Deuteronomy 26:17
  • 11. Genesis 35:7, 14
  • 12. Genesis 14:20; Leviticus 27:30-33

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Bethel means the house of God
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.