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Genesis 35:6

in Genesis 35

So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and all the people that were with him.

KJV

So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth–el, he and all the people that were with him.

This verse in Genesis 35

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Hebrew Questions on Genesis · Written before 420.

(Chapter 35, Verse 6.) And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan, which is Bethel. Here it is clearly confirmed that Bethel is not Ulammaus, as stated above, but Luz, that is, the almond tree mentioned before.

This site's exposition

a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities

on Genesis 35:5-7

Jacob had said at Genesis 34:30 that he and his household would be destroyed, and a terror from God answers that fear. The surrounding cities do not pursue. He builds the altar he was told to build and calls the place El-bethel, the God of the house of God. The name fastens to the One who met him there.

This site's exposition

everyone with him arrived in Luz

Luz was the Canaanite name of the city, and Genesis 28:19 records that Jacob called the place Bethel, house of God. Judges 1:23 to 26 tells how the house of Joseph took Luz, and a man from it built a second Luz among the Hittites. Luz is the almond of Genesis 30:37.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is Bethel,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

So Jacob came to Luz . . . that is, Beth-el--It is probable that this place was unoccupied ground when Jacob first went to it; and that after that period [CALVIN], the Canaanites built a town, to which they gave the name of Luz [Ge 28:19], from the profusion of almond trees that grew around.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּבֹ֨אand he came

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • יַעֲקֹ֜בJacob

    yaakoH3290 →350 times

  • ל֗וּזָהLuz towards

    luzahH3870 →8 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֙which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בְּאֶ֣רֶץ[is] in [the] land of

    beeretzH776 →2504 times

  • כְּנַ֔עַןCanaan

    kenaanH3667 →94 times

  • הִ֖ואthat

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

  • בֵּֽית־[is] Beth-

    beit-H1008 →142 times

  • אֵ֑ל-el

    ʾelH1008 →142 times

  • ה֖וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֥םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • עִמּֽוֹ׃[was] with him

    imoH5973 →1050 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 28:19

    and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 35:1

      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.”

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Hosea 12:4–5

      Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—

    • Genesis 48:3

      Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me

    • 1 Kings 12:29

      One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.

  • Through

    Genesis 28:22

    And this stone I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give You a tenth.”

    it leads to

    • Genesis 35:7

      There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.

    • Genesis 14:20

      and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.

    • Deuteronomy 14:22–23

      You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.

    • Leviticus 27:30–33

      Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Hebrew Questions on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.