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Verse Genesis 32:22. _PASSED OVER THE FORD JABBOK._] This brook or
rivulet rises in the mountains of Galaad, and falls into the Jordan at
the south extremity of the lake of Gennesaret....
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- Jacob Wrestles in Prayer
3. מחנים _machănāyı̂m_, Machanaim, “two camps.”
22. יבק _yaboq_, Jabboq; related: בקק _bāqaq_ “gush or
gurgle out” or אבק _'ābaq_ in niphal, “wrestle.” Now Wady
Zurka....
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CHAPTER 32 JACOB'S FEAR OF ESAU AND PRAYER AT PENIEL
_ 1. The vision at Mahanaim (Genesis 32:1)_
2. The message to Esau (Genesis 32:3)
3. Esau's coming and Jacob's fear (Genesis 32:6)
4. Jacob's p...
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THE WRESTLING OF JACOB. The narrative, for which Hosea 12:3 should be
compared. is distributed between J and E by recent critics. Gunkel
attributes Genesis 32:23_ a_, Genesis 32:25_ a_,...
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JABBOK. Hebrew pouring out, or emptying....
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_the ford of Jabbok_ This river, the modern _Zerka_, is a tributary of
the Jordan on its eastern bank. The narrative does not state on which
bank of the Jabbok the angel appeared to Jacob. According t...
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Jacob's Wrestling with the Angel
This passage forms the climax of Jacob's history. It records the
occasion on which his name is changed to Israel, and describes his
personal meeting with the Divine B...
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ROSE UP THAT NIGHT— That is, towards the close of the night, before
break of day; when setting forward his family, who crossed the brook
called Jabbok, which rises out of the adjacent mountains of Gil...
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2. _Jacob's Reconciliation with Esau: The Biblical Account_ (Genesis
32:1 to Genesis 33:17)
1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2 And
Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's...
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_AND HE ROSE UP THAT NIGHT, AND TOOK HIS TWO WIVES, AND HIS TWO
WOMENSERVANTS, AND HIS ELEVEN SONS, AND PASSED OVER THE FORD JABBOK._
Passed over the ford Jabbok, х_ YABOQ_ (H2999)]. Gesenius quotes...
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THE APPROACH OF ESAU. JACOB WRESTLES WITH THE ANGEL
1. The angels of God] God had given Jacob, by an angelic vision, a
pledge of His watchful love, when he left his home (Genesis 28:12).
Now that he...
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THE FORD JABBOK] i.e. 'wrestler.' Read, 'the ford of the Jabbok,' a
stream which flows from the neighbourhood of Rabbath Amnion into the
Jordan opposite Shechem.
24-32. The writer of this passage, it...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 32
JACOB PREPARES TO MEET ESAU
V1 Jacob continued his journey. God’s *angels met him V2 and Jacob
saw them. He said, ‘This is God’s army!’ So he c...
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The Jabbok is a stream that flows into the river Jordan from the east.
It is shallow and one can cross it easily. It divides the region that
is called Gilead in two parts....
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THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
Abraham begat Isaac — The _Tôldôth_ in its original form gave
probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing up his des...
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THE FORD JABBOK. — Heb., _the ford of the Jabbok._ This river, now
called the Wady Zerba or Blue Torrent, formed afterwards the boundary
between the tribes of Manasseh and Gad. It flows through a deep...
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_[Genesis 32:23]_ וַ יָּ֣קָם ׀ בַּ † לַּ֣יְלָה...
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JACOB AT PENIEL
Genesis 32:1
"Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you
up." James 4:10
JACOB had a double reason for wishing to leave Padan-aram. He believed
in the promise...
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JACOB WRESTLES AND PREVAILS
Genesis 32:13
There is a fulsomeness in Jacob's address to Esau, which sounds
inconsistent with the noblest manhood and the firmest faith. Why
should he speak of “my lord”...
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This is unquestionably one of the great Chapter s of the Bible, and it
is significant how constant and powerful is its appeal to all who live
on the principle of faith. It gives the account of the thi...
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WRESTLING WITH GOD
As Jacob continued his journey toward home, angels met him. He called
the name of that place Mahanaim, or "two camps" because there were two
armies encamped there, the angels and h...
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_Sons, with Dina his daughter, and all his household._...
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Proverbs 21:14
Jabbok, the boundary of the coast of the Ammonites. Joshua 12:2....
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Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the
remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the
Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
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22._And he rose up that night_. After he has prayed to the Lord, and
arranged his plans, he now takes confidence and meets the danger. By
which example the faithful are taught, that whenever any dange...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29 THROUGH 35.
I have no doubt that in the two wives, as I have said, we have the
Gentiles and Israel: Rachel first loved on the earth, but not
possessed; but...
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AND HE ROSE UP THAT NIGHT,.... In the middle of it, for it was long
before break of day, as appears from Genesis 32:24;
AND TOOK HIS TWO WIVES, Rachel and Leah,
AND HIS TWO WOMENSERVANTS, Bilhah and...
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_And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two
womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok._
Ver. 22. _And his eleven sons._] Together with his only daughter...
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1 Iacobs vision at Mahanaim.
3 His message to Esau.
6 He is afraid of Esaus comming.
9 He prayeth for deliuerance.
13 Hee sendeth a present to Esau.
24 He wrestleth with an Angel at Peniel, where...
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The Presents to Esau...
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And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two
women-servants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
Jacob's anxiety did not permit him to rest very long. Before the ni...
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FIFTH SECTION
_Jacob’s return. His fear of Esau. His night wrestlings with God.
Peniel. The name Israel. Meeting and reconciliation with Esau._
GENESIS 32:3 TO GENESIS 33:16
3And Jacob sent messenge...
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RETURNING TO FACE ESAU
As Jacob continues his journey we are told that the angels of God met
him (v.1). It was not God Himself as yet who met him, but the angels
were no doubt intended as an encourage...
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9-23 Times of fear should be times of prayer: whatever causes fear,
should drive us to our knees, to our God. Jacob had lately seen his
guards of angels, but in this distress he applied to God, not t...
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HIS ELEVEN SONS, and Dinah, though she be not here mentioned; as the
women are oft omitted in Scripture, was being comprehended under the
men. PASSED OVER THE FORD JABBOK, which is here _generally_ re...
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And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him." Still God's
grace follows him, notwithstanding all. "Nothing changeth God's
affection." Whom He loves, and as He loves, He loves to the end....
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Genesis 32:22 arose H6965 (H8799) night H3915 took H3947 (H8799) two
H8147 wives H802 two H8147 servants...
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‘And he rose up that night and took his two wives and his two
handmaids and his eleven sons and passed over the Ford of Jabbok. And
he took them and sent them over the stream and sent over what he had...
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Genesis 32
I. God selects men for His work on earth, not because of their
personal agreeableness, but because of their adaptation to the work
they have to perform.
II. There is something affecting in...
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We shall read three short portions of Scripture, all illustrative of
the great truth that God has sometimes given grace to his people to
overcome himself, the Almighty has condescended to be vanquishe...
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Genesis 32:1. _And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met
him._
What an encouragement the visit of these angels must have been to
Jacob after the strife which he had had with Laban! But, de...
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Genesis 32:1. _And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met
him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he
called the name of that place Mahanaim._
Jacob was about to enter...
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Jacob had just come out of a great trouble. God's gracious
interposition had delivered him out of the hand of the angry Laban,
Laban the churl, who cared for Jacob only for what he could get out of
hi...
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Genesis 32:1. _And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met
him._
When he left the promised land, he had a vision of angels, ascending
and descending upon the ladder, as if to bid him farewel...
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CONTENTS: Jacob becomes Israel. Preparation for meeting Esau.
Wrestling against the angel.
CHARACTERS: Jacob, Esau, angel.
CONCLUSION: Either we lean on God or on our own plans. The
arrangements of...
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Genesis 32:2. _Mahanaim,_ two camps or hosts, or the camp of God; a
city in Gilead, mentioned in Joshua 13:26; Joshua 21:38; denoting that
the angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear hi...
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_Himself lodged that night in the company_
LESSONS -
1_._
Honest hearts do not only intend good, but see it done, before they
rest.
2. Means lawful being used for safety, men may better lie down i...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 32:1. The angels of God met him.] “Lit., came, drew near to
him, not precisely that they came from an opposite direction.”
(_Lange._)—
GENESIS 32:2. MAHANAIM.] Heb. Two camps...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 32:1
AND JACOB (after Laban's departure) WENT ON HIS WAY (from Galeed and
Mizpah, in a southerly direction towards the Jabbok), AND THE ANGELS
OF GOD—literally, _the messengers of...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to Genesis chapter thirty-two?
Now in the thirty-first chapter we had the parting of Laban, Jacob's
uncle as he kisses his grandchildren goodbye, as he sets up the stone
an...
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his two wives. Genesis 29:21 Genesis 30:1 Genesis 35:18 Genesis 35:22...