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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had. And Jacob was left alone; He had made a quiet oratory for himself by sending everyone else of the company over to the other side of the brook;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he took them, and sent them over the brook,.... His wives and children, under the care of some of his servants: and sent over that he had: all that belonged to him, his servants and his cattle or goods.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Jacob was left alone,.... On the other side of Jabbok, his family and cattle having passed over it; and this solitude he chose, in order to spend some time in prayer to God for the safety of him and his: and there wrestled a man with him; not a phantasm or spectre, as Josephus (e) calls him; nor was this a mere visionary representation of a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. I suppose our Lord Jesus Christ did here, as on many other occasions preparatory to his full incarnation, assume a human form, and came thus to wrestle with the patriarch.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw — When the wrestling Man, the Angel of the covenant, saw —
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 leave off wrestling with him; not because he could not, but because he would not, being willing to encourage the faith of Jacob against future trials...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; Where the column of the leg supports the body, and if that be disjointed, a man has lost all his strength. It was brave of Jacob thus to wrestle, but there was too much of self about it all. It was his own sufficiency that was wrestling with the God-man, Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. For even with a dislocated hip Jacob would not give up wrestling; he meant to hold this wondrous Man until he got a blessing from him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. So that he fell, or began to fall; but still he gripped the Angel, and would not let him go.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. So that he was made painfully to realize his own weakness while he was putting forth all his strength.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, so 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. When we come nearest to God, we must have a deep sense of our own personal weakness; it must never...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said, let me go, for the day breaketh,.... This was said that he might seem to be a man that was desirous of going about his business, as men do early in the morning; though the true reason perhaps was, that his form might not be more distinctly seen by Jacob, and much less by any other person: and he said, I will not let thee go except...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. It is evident that, as soon as he felt that he must fall, he grasped the other “Man” with a kind of death-grip, and would not let him go. Now, in his weakness, he will prevail. While he was so strong, he won not the blessing; but when he became...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. That was grandly spoken.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. Bravely said, O Jacob! And ye sons of Jacob, learn to say the same. You may have what you will if you can speak thus to the covenant angel, “I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said unto him, what [is] thy name?.... Which question is put, not as being ignorant of it, but in order to take occasion from it, and the change of it, to show that he had granted his request, and had blessed him, and would yet more and more: and he said, Jacob; the name given him at his birth, and by which he had always been called, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. That is, a supplanter, as poor Esau well knew.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. “The supplanter.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, — The supplanter, —