And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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Gill's Exposition
And he built there an altar,.... As he was bid to do, and as he promised he would, Gen 35:1,
and called the place Elbethel; the God of Bethel; a title which God takes to himself, Gen 31:13; or…
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Adam Clarke
El-beth-el - אל בית אל the strong God, the house of the strong God. But the first אל el is wanting in one of De Rossi's MSS., as it is also in the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, and some copies of the…
Jacob and his retinue having safely arrived at Bethel, we are here told what passed there.
I. There he built an altar (Gen 35:7), and no doubt offered sacrifice upon it, perhaps the tenth of his…
Cambridge Bible
the place See notes on Gen 12:6; Gen 28:11.
El-beth-el That is, the God of Beth-el. Here, as in Gen 33:20, the altar receives the name of the deity.
was revealed Referring to Gen 28:12-13. In the Heb.…
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