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When you hit rock bottom (Genesis 34)

Genesis 28:19-22 He called the place Bethel... If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear so that I return safely to my father's house, then the LORD will be my God and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.

When you hit rock bottom (Genesis 34)

Issachar

Reuben

Judah

Simeon

Levi

Joseph

Zebulun

Leah RachelZilpah Bilah

Gad

Asher Benjamin

Dan

Naphtali

Dinah

Jacob

When you hit rock bottom (Genesis 34)

Genesis 31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.

When you hit rock bottom (Genesis 34)

Genesis 33:19 For a hundred pieces of silver, he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent.

When you hit rock bottom (Genesis 34)

Genesis 34:1 Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land.

When you hit rock bottom (Genesis 34)

Jacob hits rock bottom:

Genesis 34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me … if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed."

When you hit rock bottom (Genesis 34)

Jacob had forgotten God, but God had not forgotten Jacob...

Genesis 35:1 Then God said to Jacob, "Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.“

God’s call: return to me!

When you hit rock bottom (Genesis 34)