Genesis 35:5
King James VersionSource notes
“And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.”
Context
2Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that with him, Put away the strange gods that among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
3And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
4And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which in their hand, and earrings which in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which by Shechem.
5And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
6So Jacob came to Luz, which in the land of Canaan, that Bethel, he and all the people that with him.
7And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
8But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.