Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Genesis 28:20, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 1 Timothy 6:8
And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
- 2 Samuel 15:8
For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD…
- Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unt…
- John 1:16
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
- Psalms 66:13
I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
- Psalms 61:8
So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
- Psalms 132:2
How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
- Judges 11:30
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
- Acts 23:12
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they h…
- Psalms 56:12
Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
- Psalms 119:106
I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
- Psalms 116:18
I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,
More to meet God in Genesis
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.