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Verse Genesis 32:25. _THE HOLLOW OF JACOB'S THIGH WAS OUT OF JOINT_]
What this implies is difficult to find out; it is not likely that it
was complete luxation of the thigh bone. It may mean no more...
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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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WHEN HE SAW THAT HE PREVAILED NOT AGAINST HIM.
The Speaker's Commentary says: "The mystical meaning of the whole
transaction must be of this kind; the time was an important epoch in
Jacob's history. I...
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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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_he saw_ In the narrative, as we have it, these words refer to the
mysterious combatant with whom Jacob wrestled. But the omission of the
subject both in this and the subsequent clause, in the Hebrew...
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AND WHEN HE SAW, &C.— The Angel or Divine Person prevailed not,
because he was willing to give Jacob the apparent superiority. But, at
the same time, to convince him how easily he could have prevailed...
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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 JACOB WAS LEFT ALONE; AND THERE WRESTLED A MAN WITH HIM UNTIL THE
BREAKING OF THE DAY._
There wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day - an
unknown person appeared suddenly to oppos...
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32:25 joint (c-15) joint (c-21) The hollow of the joint....
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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 man saw that he did not win.’ God is powerful. He can do
anything. But he did not overcome Jacob, because he used only a
man’s strength....
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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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_[Genesis 32:26]_ וַ יַּ֗רְא כִּ֣י לֹ֤א יָכֹל֙...
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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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And when he saw that he (i) 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.
(i) For God assails his with the...
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_Sinew, near the coxendix, or huckel-bone. (Du Hamel) This was to
convince Jacob, how easily he could have gained the victory over him;
and to make him remember, that it was not simply a vision, but a...
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Reader! observe the continual conflicts of the faithful. While
dreading the coming of his brother, and not as a friend, the Lord
himself comes forth to meet him, and seemingly as an enemy. And while
p...
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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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25._And when he saw that he prevailed not against him_. Here is
described to us the victory of Jacob, which, however, was not gained
without a wound. In saying that the wrestling angel, or God, wished...
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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 WHEN HE SAW THAT HE PREVAILED NOT AGAINST HIM,.... That he, the
man, or the Son of God in the form of man, prevailed not against
Jacob, by casting him to the ground, or causing him to desist and
l...
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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.
Ver. 25. _And when he saw that he pre...
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_He prevailed not against him_ The angel suffered himself to be
conquered, to encourage Jacob's faith and hope against the approaching
danger: nay, he even imparted strength to him to maintain the
con...
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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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And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, when the unknown
man found that he could not overcome the determined resistance of
Jacob, HE TOUCHED THE HOLLOW OF HIS THIGH, the socket of the
hip-j...
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The Struggle at Peniel...
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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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24-32 A great while before day, Jacob being alone, more fully spread
his fears before God in prayer. While thus employed, One in the
likeness of a man wrestled with him. When the spirit helpeth our
i...
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Not through impotency, but in design, the angel suffered himself to be
conquered, to encourage Jacob's faith and hope against the approaching
danger. THE HOLLOW OF HIS THIGH, the joint of his hip-bone...
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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 32:25 saw H7200 (H8799) prevail H3201 (H8804) touched H5060
(H8799) hip H3409 socket H3709 Jacobs...
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‘And Jacob was left alone and there wrestled a man with him until
the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he did not prevail
against him he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of
Jac...
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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._
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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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._
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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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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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 32:25 JACOB’S HIP WAS PUT OUT OF JOINT.
Jacob’s injury shows the strength of his opponent and his own desire
to win the fight.
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 32:22 This passage records a nighttime
encounter between God and Jacob. Jacob is transformed by this
extraordinary meeting, and his name is changed from “Jacob” to
“Israel.”...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 32:24. Wrestled.] The Heb. word only occurs in this place. It
seems to be derived from a word signifying “dust,” and the
allusion is probably to the dust excited by the combat...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 32:24
AND JACOB WAS LEFT ALONE (probably on the north bank of the Jabbok;
but _vide_ on Genesis 32:23); AND THERE WRESTLED—thus assaulting in
his strong point one who had been a wr...
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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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that he. Genesis 19:22 Numbers 14:13 Numbers 14:14 Isaiah 41:14 Isai
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The angel prevailed not against him — That is, this discouragement
did not shake his faith, nor silence his prayer. It was not in his own
strength that he wrestled, nor by his own strength that he pre...