“And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.”
Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had talked with him, and he poured out a drink offering on it; he also poured oil on it. The setting up of the stone pillar and the pouring of oil echoes Genesis 28:18 exactly — the same acts at the same place at the beginning and end of the journey. The drink offering is added in the return — a development from the oil alone of the first visit. The application: the return to a place of covenant encounter is enriched by what the journey has added. The pilgrim who returns to Bethel has more to pour than the runaway who first arrived.
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