¶ And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and ^awestward^•:

 For all the ^aland^• which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

 And I will make thy ^aseed^• as the ^bdust^• of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt ^ain^• the plain of Mamre, which is in ^bHebron^•, and built there an ^caltar^• unto the LORD.

 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is ^aHebron^• in the land of Canaan.

 ¶ And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

 And he ^adreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the ^bangels of God ascending and descending on it.

 And, behold, the ^aLORD^• stood ^babove^• it, and said, I am the ^cLORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the ^dland whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;

 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the ^anorth, and to the south: and in thee and in thy ^bseed shall all the ^cfamilies of the earth be ^dblessed.

 And, behold, ^aI^• am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will ^bbring thee again into this ^cland; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

 ¶ And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.

 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of ^aheaven.

 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 ^apillar^•, and poured oil upon the top of it.

 And he called the name of that place ^aBeth-el^•: but the name of that city was called ^bLuz^• at the first.

 And Jacob vowed a ^avow, 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 ^aLORD^• be my God:

 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the ^atenth unto thee.

 And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

 ¶ David was thirty years old when he began to ^areign^•, and he ^breigned^• forty years.

 In Hebron he reigned over ^aJudah^• seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he ^breigned^• thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.

 ¶ And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the ^aJebusites^•, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.

 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of ^aZion: the same is the ^bcity^• of David.

 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the ^aJebusites^•, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the ^acity^• of David. And David built round about from ^bMillo^• and inward.