Genesis 35:15 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 35:15

Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.

KJV

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth–el.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

And he confirmed the name he had formerly given to the place, Beth-el, the house of God. Yet this very place afterwards lost the honour of its name, and became Beth-aven, a house of iniquity, for here it was that Jeroboam set up one of his calves. It is impossible for the best men to entail so much as the profession and form of religion upon a place.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקְרָ֨א	vai.yik.Ra'	and he called	H7121 →
יַעֲקֹ֜ב	ya.'a.Ko	Jacob	H3290 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
שֵׁ֣ם	shem	[the] name of	H8034 →
הַמָּק֗וֹם	ha.ma.Kom	the place	H4725 →
אֲשֶׁר֩	'a.Sher	where	H834 →
דִּבֶּ֨ר	di.Ber	he had spoken	H1696 →
אִתּ֥וֹ	'i.To	with him	H854 →
שָׁ֛ם	sham	there	H8033 →
אֱלֹהִ֖ים	'E.lo.Him	God	H430 →
בֵּֽית־	beit-	Beth-	H1008 →
אֵֽל׃	'El	-el	H1008 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 28:19
and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
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.”
- 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
- Judges 1:22–26
  The house of Joseph also attacked Bethel, and the LORD was with them.
- 1 Kings 12:29
  One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.