Bible Strands
Genesis 28:18
Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jacob acts alone at the site of his nocturnal vision near Luz, rising early the next morning to respond to the divine encounter.
The words — וַ/יַּשְׁכֵּ֨ם (va/i.yash.Kem) = and he rose early and הָ/אֶ֙בֶן֙ (ha./'E.ven) = the stone.
The thread — The motif of erecting a stone pillar and anointing it recurs in Genesis 31:45, Genesis 31:13, and Genesis 35:14.
Why it lands — The text requires a tangible response to a spiritual encounter by marking the location and consecrating it through oil.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Cross-references
- Genesis 35:14 So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
- Genesis 31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up, leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”
- Genesis 31:45 So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,
- Leviticus 8:10 Next, Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it; and so he consecrated them.
- Genesis 22:3 So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.
- Genesis 35:20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.
- Numbers 7:1 On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils.
- Joshua 24:26 Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was near the sanctuary of the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 7:12 Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
- 2 Samuel 18:18 During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.