Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Genesis 28:20

“And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,”

Genesis 28:20 (KJV)

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 passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Genesis 28. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

18 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.

19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

21 So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:

22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 1 Timothy 6:8And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
  • 2 Samuel 15:8For 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 31:13I 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 unto the land of thy kindred.
  • John 1:16And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
  • Psalms 66:13I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
  • Psalms 61:8So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
  • Psalms 132:2How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
  • Judges 11:30And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
  • Acts 23:12And 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 had killed Paul.
  • Psalms 56:12Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.
  • Psalms 119:106I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
  • Psalms 116:18I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,
  • Psalms 116:14I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
  • Psalms 76:11Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

More to meet God in Genesis

Genesis 1:1Genesis 50:20Genesis 1:27Genesis 28:15Genesis 35:2Genesis 15:1Genesis 3:15Genesis 49:10Genesis 49:24Genesis 8:21Genesis 2:17Genesis 15:18Genesis 1:14Genesis 48:16

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.