Genesis 28:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the stone. See Genesis 28:11. Not the so-called "Coronation stone" in London: inasmuch as the heads of the "Geological Survey of Great Britain" unanimously declared that "no stone of that kind was to be found in any part of the Holy Land whence it traditionally comes". Prof. Ramsay also pronounced it as being "not known to occur in Egypt or in the rocks around Bethel".

pillar. Afterwards forbidden. Leviticus 26:1.Deuteronomy 16:22.

poured oil.. law before Moses. See App-15.

Genesis 28:18

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.