Genesis 32:26
The man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
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27The man said to him, “What is your name?” Jacob said, “Jacob.”
Cross References
Exodus 32:10Now then, do not try to stop me. My anger will burn hot against them, so I will destroy them. Then I will make a great nation from you.”
1 Chronicles 4:10Jabez called out to the God of Israel and said, “If only you would truly bless me, expand my territory, and your hand will be with me. When you do this you will keep me from harm, so that I may be free from pain!” So God granted him his prayer.
Psalms 67:6The earth has yielded its harvest 1 and God, our God, has blessed us. 1
Song of Solomon 3:4It was only a little while after I had passed them 1 that I found him whom my soul loves. 1 I held him and would not let him go 1 until I had brought him into my mother's house, 1 into the bedroom of the one who had conceived me. The woman speaking to the other women 1
Isaiah 45:11This is what Yahweh says, the Holy One of Israel, his Maker: 1 'Why do you ask questions about what I will do for my children? Do you tell me what to do concerning the work of my hands?' 1
Hosea 12:4He struggled with the angel and won. 1 He wept and begged for his favor. 1 He met God at Bethel; 1 there God spoke with him. 1
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 →