| Geneva Study Bible And God {e} went up from him in the place where he talked with him. (e) As God is said to descend, when he shows some sign of his presence: so he is said to ascend when a vision is ended. Wesley's Notes 35:13 And God went up from him - Or, from over him - In some visible display of glory, which had hovered over him, while he talked with him. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 13. God went up from him-The presence of God was indicated in some visible form and His acceptance of the sacrifice shown by the miraculous descent of fire from heaven, consuming it on the altar. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 35:6-15 The comfort the saints have in holy ordinances, is not so much from Beth-el, the house of God, as from El-beth-el, the God of the house. The ordinances are empty things, if we do not meet with God in them. There Jacob buried Deborah, Rebekah's nurse. She died much lamented. Old servants in a family, that have in their time been faithful and useful, ought to be respected. God appeared to Jacob. He renewed the covenant with him. I am God Almighty, God all-sufficient, able to make good the promise in due time, and to support thee and provide for thee in the mean time. Two things are promised; that he should be the father of a great nation, and that he should be the master of a good land. These two promises had a spiritual signification, which Jacob had some notion of, though not so clear and distinct as we now have. Christ is the promised Seed, and heaven is the promised land; the former is the foundation, and the latter the top-stone, of all God's favours. | 
