Objects
pillar
Jacob sets up stone pillars at Bethel and at Galeed as covenant witnesses with Laban, raises a standing-stone at Bethel in Genesis 35, and marks Rachel's grave with a monument.
Category
Objects
First mention
Genesis 28:18
Tags
2
Scripture references
- Genesis 28:18
Jacob took the stone he had used for his pillow, and set it up as a pillar, pouring oil over the top of it.
- Genesis 28:22
This stone I have set up as a pillar is to be a house of God,
- Genesis 31:13
I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel, where you poured oil on a pillar and made a vow to me.
- Genesis 31:51
Then Laban said to Jacob, 'Here is this cairn I have thrown up between us, and here the pillar.
- Genesis 31:52
This cairn is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I am not to cross to your side of this cairn and you are not to cross to my side of this cairn and pillar, with hostile intent.
- Genesis 35:14
Jacob raised a monument at the spot where he had spoken to him, a standing-stone, on which he made a libation and poured oil.
- Genesis 35:20
Jacob raised a monument on her grave, that same monument of Rachel's Tomb which is there today.