El-elohe-Israel

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The name given by Jacob to the altar he erected near Shechem. God had just before altered his name into Israel, “a prince of God”; Jacob connected the blessing involved in this name with a piece of land he bought, instead of with God’s house at Bethel, and calls the altar he had erected “God, the God of Israel” (Gen. 32:2828And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. (Genesis 32:28); Gen. 33:2020And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel. (Genesis 33:20)).