Genesis 32:24
So Jacob was left there alone. But a man came and wrestled with him until dawn.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
In Context
23After he had done that, he sent other slaves, carrying all his possessions, across the river.
Cross References
Genesis 32:28The man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob. Your name will be Israel, which means ‘he struggles with God’, because you have struggled with God and with people, and you have won.”
Genesis 48:16The angel whom he sent has kept me from being harmed in any way. I pray that God will bless these boys. I pray that people will never forget about me and about Abraham and Isaac because of what God does for these boys. I pray that they will have many descendants who will live all over the earth.”
Song of Solomon 2:17You who love me, come and be like [SIM] a gazelle or like a young deer on the hills of Bether, and then flee like a deer at dawn tomorrow morning, when the darkness fades.
Hosea 12:3When Jacob was in his mother’s womb, he grabbed his brother Esau’s heel because he wanted to be born first. When Jacob grew up, he wrestled with God.
Luke 22:44He was greatly distressed. So he prayed more earnestly. His sweat fell down on the ground as though it was large drops of blood.
Romans 15:30Because we belong to our Lord Jesus Christ and because the Spirit of God causes us to love each other, I urge you all that you help me by fervently/intensely praying to God for me.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 32:14-24
Jacob's Present to Esau. ( b. c. 1739.) 13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; 14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. 16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 17 And he… Read the whole commentary →