'To the Lord' in the Bible

So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit of the ground.

Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is too great to bear!

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have sworn to the Lord God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

And he said, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord; suppose twenty are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it on account of the twenty.”

Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord answered him and Rebekah his wife conceived.