Genesis 28:15-17

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁵And behold, I am with you and will keep (watch over you with care, take notice of) you wherever you may go, and I will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done all of which I have told you.

¹⁶And Jacob awoke from his sleep and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place and I did not know it.

¹⁷He was afraid and said, How to be feared and reverenced is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and ^[a]this is the gateway to heaven!

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Footnotes

Genesis 28:17 “There is an open way between heaven and earth for each of us. The movement of the tide and the circulation of the blood are not more regular than the intercommunication between heaven and earth. Jacob may have thought that God was local; now he found Him to be omnipresent. Every lonely spot was His house, filled with angels” (F. B. Meyer, Through the Bible Day by Day). When Jacob found God in his own heart, he found Him everywhere.