Genesis 32:28
The man said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel. For you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”
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27The man said to him, “What is your name?” Jacob said, “Jacob.”
Cross References
Genesis 17:5No longer will your name be Abram, but your name will be Abraham—for I appoint you to be the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 25:31Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.”
Genesis 31:24Now God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.”
Genesis 32:24Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
Genesis 33:20There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.
Numbers 13:16These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to examine the land. Moses called Hoshea son of Nun by the name of Joshua.
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 →