Gen 32:24-30, 48:15-16, Jos 5:13-15, Eze 8:2-6, Hos 12:3-5, Zec 13:7 | TSK | STEP | wrestled. man. breaking of the day. Heb. ascending of the morning.

Israel. i.e., a prince of God. as a prince.Or, according to the LXX., Vulgate, Houbigant, Dathe, and Rosenmuller, "because thou hast power with God, thou shalt also prevail with men." There is a beautiful antithesis between the two terms, with [Elohim,] {Elohim,} god, the Almighty, with [anashim,] {anashim,} weak, feeble men, as the word imports; seeing thou hast had power with the Almighty, surely thou shalt prevail over perishing mortals.

power.

24; Ho 12:3-5

with men.

25:31; 27:33-36; 31:24,36-55; 33:4; 1Sa 26:25; Pr 16:7

Wherefore.

27; De 29:29; Jud 13:16-18; Job 11:7; Pr 30:4; Isa 9:6; Lu 1:19

blessed.

26; 27:28,29; 28:3,4,13,14; Ho 6:1

Jacob.

Penuel.

28:19; Jud 8:8,17; 1Ki 12:25

Peniel. i.e., the face of God.Peniel, or Penuel, was evidently situated near the ford of Jabbok, on the north of that stream, about forty miles from Jerusalem.

I have.

16:13; Ex 24:10,11; 33:14,19-23; Nu 12:8; De 5:24; 34:10

Jud 6:22,23; 13:21,22; Isa 6:5; Joh 1:18; 2Co 3:18; 4:6; Ga 1:6

Eph 1:17; Col 1:15; 2Ti 1:10; Heb 11:27

Genesis 48:15-16

blessed.

16; 27:4; 28:3; 49:28; De 33:1; Heb 11:21

did walk.

5:22-24; 6:9; 17:1; 24:20; 1Ki 3:6; Ps 16:8; Isa 30:21; Jer 8:2

Lu 1:6; 1Co 10:31; 2Co 1:12; Col 2:6; 1Th 2:12

fed me.

28:20,22; Ps 23:1; 37:3; 103:4,5; Ec 2:24,25; 5:12,18; 6:7

Isa 33:16; Mt 6:25-34; 1Ti 6:6-10

Angel.

16:7-13; 28:15; 31:11-13; Ex 3:2-6; 23:20,21; Jud 2:1-4; 6:21-24

Jud 13:21,22; Ps 34:7,22; 121:7; Isa 47:4; 63:9; Ho 12:4,5; Mal 3:1

Ac 7:30-35; 1Co 10:4,9

redeemed.

Ps 34:2; Mt 6:13; Joh 17:15; Ro 8:23; 2Ti 4:18; Tit 2:14

my name.

5; 32:28; De 28:10; 2Ch 7:14; Jer 14:9; Am 9:12; Ac 15:17

grow into. Heb. as fishes do increase.

1:21,22; Nu 1:46; 26:34,37Fish are the most prolific of all animals: a tench lays 1,000 eggs, a carp 20,000, and Leuwenhoek counted in a middling sized cod, 9,384,000.

a multitude.

49:22; Ex 1:7; Nu 26:28-37; De 33:17; Jos 17:17

Joshua 5:13-15

he lifted.

Ge 33:1,5; Da 8:3; 10:5

a man.

6:2; Ge 18:2; 32:24-30; Ex 23:23; Jud 13:8,9,11,22; Da 10:5

Ho 12:3-5; Zec 1:8; Ac 1:10; Re 1:13

his sword.

Nu 22:23; 1Ch 21:16,17,27,30

Art thou for us.

1Ch 12:17,18

but as captain. or, Prince.

Ex 23:20-22; Isa 55:4; Da 10:13,21; 12:1; Heb 2:10; Re 12:7

Re 19:11-14

fell on his.

Ge 17:3,17; Le 9:24; Nu 16:22,45; Mt 8:2; Lu 5:12; Ac 10:25,26

Re 19:10; 22:8,9

What saith.

1Sa 3:9,10; Isa 6:8; Ac 9:6

my lord.

Ex 4:10,13; Ps 110:1; Mt 22:44; Lu 1:43; 20:42; Joh 20:28; Php 3:8

Loose.

Ex 3:5; Ac 7:32,33; 2Pe 1:18

And Joshua.Many persons have been puzzled to know what was intended by this extraordinary appearance of the angel to Joshua, because they supposed that the whole business ends with the chapter; whereas it is continued in the succeeding one, the first verse of which is a mere parenthesis, simply relating to the state of Jericho at the time when Joshua was favoured with this encouraging vision; by which he was shewn that their help came from God alone, and that it was not by human might or power, but by the Lord of hosts they were to obtain the victory.

Ezekiel 8:2-6

I beheld.

1:4,26,27; Da 7:9,10; Re 1:14,15

amber.Amber is a hard, inflammable, bituminous substance, of a beautiful yellow colour, very transparent, and susceptible of an exquisite polish. When rubbed it is highly endowed with electricity; a name which the moderns have formed from its Greek name [elektron.] But, as amber becomes dim as soon as it feels the fire, and is speedily consumed, it is probable that the original {chashmal,} which Bochart derives from the Chaldee {nechash,} copper, and {melala,} gold, was a mixed metal, similar to that which the Greeks called [elektron,] electrum, as the LXX. and Vulgate render, from its resemblance to amber in colour.

he put.

2:9; Da 5:5; 10:10,18

the spirit.

3:14; 11:1,24; 40:2; 1Ki 18:12; 2Ki 2:16; Ac 8:39; 2Co 12:2-4

Re 1:10-20; 4:2-11

to the door.

5; 2Ki 16:14

the image.

5:11; 7:20; 2Ki 21:7; Jer 7:30; 32:34

provoketh.

Ex 20:5; 34:14; De 4:24; 5:9; 6:15; 32:16,21; Jos 24:19; Ps 78:58

1Co 10:21,22