Bethel

With no tent and no fire, he pulled a smooth stone from the earth to serve as his pillow. It was a cold, unforgiving start to his exile. But that night, the hard place transformed.

Jacob was a man on the run. Behind him lay a family fractured by his own deception; ahead lay a vast, uncertain wilderness. As the sun dipped below the horizon of the Judean hills, he found himself alone in a place called , a name that meant "the hard place." bethel

"Surely the Lord is in this place," he whispered, "and I was not aware of it." With no tent and no fire, he pulled