Bible Verse Lookup
Gen 28:15
Chapter 28
15
See, I am with you, and I will keep you safe wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land and will not leave you until I have fulfilled what I promised.”
See, I am with you, and I will keep you safe wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land and will not leave you until I have fulfilled what I promised.”
Commentaries
Jacob at Bethel.
God appears to Jacob in dreams, a common means of communication with God in the Bible. The divine apparition, or theophany, aims to affirm the divine promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The writers of Genesis have a distinct interest in establishing this theophany specifically here, at Bethel, a highly significant site for the northern kingdom, just as Beersheba, Shechem, and Hebron are in the Abrahamic cycle, and therefore for the southern kingdom.