And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city [was called] Luz at the first.
Ver. 19. Bethel,] i.e., The house of God; yet afterwards for the calf worshlp there set up by Jeroboam, it became Bethaven. Hos 4:15 See the note there. God grant that Anglia, once called Regnum Dei, never become Thronus Satanae, the place "where Satan's seat is". Rev 2:13 And let all true hearted Englishmen with one mind and one mouth say, Amen and Amen.