Genesis 32:31
The sun came up and Jacob's hip was very sore and so he limped from Peniel across the Jabbok River to the rest of his people. The man hit Jacob where his leg was joined to his body and so, even today the people of Israel do not eat the strings that hold an animal's leg to its hip.
Barkly (portions)
In The King James Version
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 16:13Hagar heard what the angel said, and she knew that the message came from the Lord. So she named him, You are the God who sees me. And she said to herself, “I have seen the back of God. He is the one who sees me.”
Genesis 19:23Just as Lot and his daughters got to Zoar, the sun came up. Then the Lord sent burning stone called sulfur down from the sky onto Sodom and Gomorrah. Both those towns and all the plain country around them was burnt. All the people, all the plants and every living thing there died.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 32:25-32
Jacob Wrestles with an Angel. ( b. c. 1739.) 24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no… Read the whole commentary →