Genesis 33: 18-20: “And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city. And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money. And he erected there an altar, and called it Elelohe-Israel.”
Jacob stayed in Succoth for a while but then he moved on. When Abraham sent his servant to find a wife for Isaac, he told the servant that he wasn’t to take his son back to his father’s homeland under any circumstances. The Lord had sent him away from that Land and had promised a new Land. The Land of Canaan, that is, the Promised Land. Jacob decided to move to the Promised Land because God had promised him that the future lay in the Promised Land. Not only did he pitch his there, he also bought some land so that he would have a stake in the Promised Land. When he had done all this he built and altar and called it “God, the God of Israel. When Jacob left the Land to get his wife (he ended up with more than he set out to get) he had a vision and promised the Lord that if the Lord brought him back to his father’s house in peace then the Lord would be his God (Gen 28: 19-21 “And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first. 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, So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:”) Jacob was back and he kept the promise that he had made all those years before.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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