Hymns · 1762

Whom Jacob once in Bethel found

Details

Hymnal / album Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2

Publisher Farley

Copyright Public Domain (Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. The publication year, if correct, suggests that this work may be in public domain in the U.S..)

Notes Originally titled “He found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us.”—[Hosea] xii. 4. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 80.

Scripture connections

Expository

This passage is the main idea of the song

Genesis 28:10-19

References

Verses this song directly draws from

Hosea 12:4

Allusions

Verses this song echoes or alludes to

Leviticus 16:14-15 Hebrews 10:22 Hebrews 12:24

Lyrics

Whom Jacob once in Bethel found, (Gen. 28:10-19, Hosea 12:4)
We too have found the Lord,
Have heard his voice of mercy sound,
His reconciling word;
Where first we felt the sprinkled blood, (Lev. 16:14-15, Heb. 10:22, Heb. 12:24)
And saw our sins forgiven,
This is, we cried, the house of God,
This is the gate of heaven! (Gen. 28:16-17)