Genesis 32:28-29 NLT,NIV,ESV

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 32:28

A new name. "Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel." Twenty years before Jacob learned at Bethel to know God as a living and present Protector. This a great step in spiritual life; belief of God in heaven, becoming consciousness of God "in this place," guiding all events. It is the first step towards walking with God. But his training not yet complete. Truth is usually grasped by degrees. Unbelief, cast out, returns in new forms and under new pretences. A common mistake at... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 32:29

And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name . A request indicating great boldness on the part of Jacob—the boldness of faith ( Hebrews 4:16 ; Hebrews 10:19 ); and importing a desire on Jacob's part to be acquainted, not merely with the designation, but with the mysterious character of the Divine personage with whom he had been contending. And he (the mysterious stranger) said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? Cf. 13:18 , where the angel gives... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 32:1-32

- Jacob Wrestles in Prayer3. 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.29. ישׂראל yı̂śrā'ēl, Jisrael, “prince of God.”31. פניאל penı̂y'ēl = פנוּאל penû'ēl, Peniel, Penuel, “face of God.”After twenty years spent in Aram, Jacob now returns to Kenann. As his departure was marked by a great moment in his spiritual life, so he is now approaching to a crisis in his life of no... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 32:27-28

Genesis 32:27-28 . What is thy name? And he said, Jacob That is, a supplanter, as the word signifies. He said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob Or, as the words should rather be rendered, shall not only be called Jacob, but Israel, or Israel rather than Jacob, a man prevailing with God, rather than a supplanter. It is evident he was afterward called Jacob, as well as Israel, but the latter name, in his posterity, nearly swallowed up the former, who were generally... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 32:29-30

Genesis 32:29-30 . Wherefore dost thou ask after my name? Canst thou be at any loss to know who I am? The discovery of that was reserved for his death-bed, upon which he was taught to call him Shiloh. But instead of telling him his name, he gave him his blessing, which was the thing Jacob wrestled for; he blessed him there Repeated and ratified the blessing formerly given him. See how wonderfully God condescends to countenance and crown importunate prayer! Those that resolve, though God... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 32:1-32

Preparing to meet Esau (32:1-32)During the twenty years that Jacob had been in Mesopotamia, Esau had established his household in territory to the south near the Dead Sea. Jacob knew that if he was to live in peace in Canaan, he would first have to put things right with Esau. With much fear and anxiety he sent news to Esau that he was coming to meet him (32:1-8).Jacob had by now learnt a humility before God that was lacking the previous time he met Esau. He thanked God for his remarkable... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 32:28

Jacob = contender (Genesis 25:22 ). Used of the natural Jacob and his natural seed. Israel used for spiritual Jacob and his spiritual seed. Israel = "God commands, orders or rules". Man attempts it but always, in the end, fails. Out of some forty Hebrew names compounded with "El" or "Jah", God is always the doer of what the verb means (compare Dani-el, God judges). prince = commander, orderer. Here used not to dignify but to reproach. Compare Genesis 12:15 , princes (courtiers); Genesis... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 32:24-32

PENIEL"And Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled a man with him till the breaking of day. 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 strained, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 32:28

Genesis 32:28. For as a prince, &c.— Our translation renders these words of the Angel to Jacob, as if Jacob had prevailed over men as well as over him; whereas he had been so far from prevailing over the only two enemies he had, viz. Esau and Laban, that he had been forced to flee from them both. This makes it therefore necessary to have recourse to a better version of these words, if the original can bear us out in it; which it will do, without the least violence, or rather by following... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 32:29

Genesis 32:29. And Jacob said,—Tell me, I pray thee, thy name— i.e.. That I may do thee honour, and pay thee worship, under that peculiar attribute and title which suits this condescension and revelation of thyself to me. The Divine Person replies, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? as much as to say, Can'st thou be ignorant who I am, or how I have regarded thee and thy family? I who am the God of Beth-el, &c. But, fully to satisfy thee, I will bless thee; that is, most... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 32:28

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 32:29

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 32:1-32

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 32:27-28

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 32:29-30

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 32:1-32

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 32:28

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 32:24-32

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 32:28

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 32:29

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