Genesis 35:12
Verse 12 of 29. The 35th of 50 chapters in Genesis, in The Law.
8But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth–el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon–bachuth.
9And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan–aram, and blessed him.
10And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
11And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
12And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
13And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
14And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth–el.
16And they journeyed from Beth–el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
Genesis 35:12 in the World English Bible
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.”Read Genesis 35:12 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Genesis 35:12
Two things are promised him which we have met with often before:—(1.) That he should be the father of a great nation, great in number—a company of nations shall be of thee (every tribe of Israel was a nation, and all the twelve a company of nations), great in honour and power—kings shall come out of thy loins. (2.) That he should be the master of a good land (v. 12), described by the grantees, Abraham and Isaac, to whom…
Read Matthew Henry on Genesis 35:6–15: Jacob's Arrival at Bethel. (b. c. 1732.)
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