Genesis 32:28-29 NLT,NIV,ESV

Geneva Study Bible - Genesis 32:28

32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou {k} power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.(k) God gave Jacob both power to overcome, and also the praise of the victory. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 32:1-32

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 encouragement for Jacob to be diligent to return all the way to the Lord's place for him. We may wonder in what way they appeared, but Jacob recognized them as "God's host," and names the place "Mahanaim," meaning "two camps." Jacob had not yet learned that his interests ought to be merged with God's... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Genesis 32:1-32

JACOB BECOMES ISRAEL MEETING WITH THE ANGELS (32:1-2) Filled with wonders is this lesson! The appearance of the angels, the divine wrestling, the transformation of Esau how much we need the Holy Spirit to understand the meaning of these things! Be sure to identify these places: Galeed or Mizpah of the preceding chapter, and Mahanaim, Peniel and the river Jabbok named in this, are all on the east of the Jordan, not far from what was known later as Ramoth- Gilead. How condescending of God to... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 32:27-28

No more Jacob, which signifies a supplanter; but Israel, which means a Prince. And do not all the spiritual seed of Jacob change their name when their nature is renewed? Isaiah 62:4 ; Revelation 3:12 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 32:29

Judges 13:17-18 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 32:29-31

The disjointed thigh testified what the Lord could have done. Sweet is it to have divine strength perfected in human weakness. What was Paul's experience but this, when carrying about with him in his body, the dying of the Lord Jesus. Galatians 6:17 . Reader! observe it is always sunshine in the soul, in or soon after seasons of divine communion. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Genesis 32:28

Israel. This name was more honourable, and that by which his posterity were afterwards known; being called Israelites, and not Jacobites. God ratifies the title, chap. xxxv. 10. It means a prince of God, (St. Jerome, q. Heb.; Calmet) or one standing upright, and contending victoriously with God, rectus Dei, yisrael. (Haydock) --- Many have expounded it, a man seeing God; aiss-rae-al. (Philo, &c.) read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Genesis 32:29

Why, &c. He represses Jacob's curiosity, (Haydock) perhaps because God did not as yet choose to reveal his name, Exodus vi. 3. Some Greek and Latin copies add, which is wonderful, taken from Judges xiii. 6, 18. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 32:24-32

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 infirmities, and our earnest and vast desires can scarcely find words to utter them, and we still mean more than we can express, then prayer is indeed wrestling with God. However tried or discouraged, we shall prevail; and prevailing with Him in prayer, we shall prevail against all enemies that... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Genesis 32:1-29

Gen_32:1 Gen_35:29 . Thus far, many blemishes have marred the history of Jacob. His desire at the outset for the birthright and the blessing of God, which accompanied it, was right: the way he schemed to obtain it altogether wrong. God had been but little in his thoughts, and when, fleeing from Esau's vengeance, in a night vision he discovered the house of God, he felt it to be a dreadful place. One of our hymn writers describing his soul's journey, began with, "All of self and none of Thee."... read more

Geneva Study Bible - Genesis 32:28

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 32:1-32

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Genesis 32:1-32

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 32:27-28

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 32:29

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Genesis 32:29-31

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Genesis 32:28

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Genesis 32:29

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 32:24-32

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Genesis 32:1-29

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