{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/tsk/gen032.htm","path":"bib/cmt/tsk/gen032.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/tsk/gen032.htm","text":"Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880]\nOverview\nGen 32:1, Jacob's vision at Mahanaim; Gen 32:3, His message to Esau; Gen 32:6, He is afraid of Esau's coming; Gen 32:9, He prays for deliverance; Gen 32:13, He sends a present to Esau, and passes the brook Jabbok; Gen 32:24, He wrestles with an angel at Peniel, where he is called Israel; Gen 32:31, He halts.\nangels: Psa 91:11; Heb 1:4; Co1 3:22; Eph 3:10\nGod's: Jos 5:14; Kg2 6:17; Psa 34:7, Psa 103:21, Psa 148:2; Dan 10:20; Luk 2:13\nthe name: Jos 21:38; Sa2 2:8, Sa2 2:12, Sa2 17:24, Sa2 17:26, Sa2 17:27; Kg1 2:8, Kg1 4:14\nMahanaim: i.e. two hosts, or camps, Sol 6:13; Mahanaim was situated between Gilead and the river Jabbok, near the present Djezan.\nsent: Mal 3:1; Luk 9:52, Luk 14:31, Luk 14:32\nland: The land, or mountains, of Seir was situated south and east of the Dead Sea; forming a continuation of the eastern Syrian chain of mountains, beginning with Antilibanus, and extending from thence to the eastern gulf of the Red Sea.\nSeir: Gen 14:6, Gen 33:14, Gen 33:16, Gen 36:6-8; Deu 2:5, Deu 2:22; Jos 24:4\ncountry: Heb. field\nEdom: Gen 25:30\nmy lord: Gen 32:5, Gen 32:18, Gen 4:7, Gen 23:6, Gen 27:29, Gen 27:37, Gen 33:8; Exo 32:22; Sa1 26:17; Pro 6:3, Pro 15:1; Luk 14:11; Pe1 3:6\nhave oxen: Gen 30:43, Gen 31:1, Gen 31:16, Gen 33:11; Job 6:22\nmay find: Gen 33:8, Gen 33:15, Gen 47:25; Rut 2:2; Sa1 1:18; Sa2 16:4\nand four: Gen 32:8, Gen 32:11, Gen 27:40, Gen 27:41, Gen 33:1; Amo 5:19\ngreatly: Exo 14:10; Psa 18:4, Psa 18:5, Psa 31:13, Psa 55:4, Psa 55:5, Psa 61:2, Psa 142:4; Mat 8:26; Joh 16:33; Act 14:22; Co2 1:4, Co2 1:8-10; Ti2 3:12\ndistressed: Gen 35:3; Psa 107:6\nand he: Psa 112:5; Pro 2:11; Isa 28:26; Mat 10:16\nJacob: Sa1 30:6; Ch2 20:6, Ch2 20:12, Ch2 32:20; Psa 34:4-6, Psa 50:15, Psa 91:15; Phi 4:6, Phi 4:7\nO God: Gen 17:7, Gen 28:13, Gen 31:29, Gen 31:42, Gen 31:53; Exo 3:6\nnot worthy of the least of all: Heb. less than all, Gen 18:27; Sa2 7:18; Job 42:5, Job 42:6; Psa 16:2; Isa 6:5, Isa 63:7; Dan 9:8, Dan 9:9; Luk 5:8; Luk 17:10; Co2 12:11; Ti1 1:12-15; Pe1 5:5; Jo1 1:8-10\ntruth: Gen 24:27, Gen 28:15; Psa 61:7, Psa 85:10; Mic 7:20\nmy staff: Gen 28:10, Gen 28:11; Job 8:7; Psa 18:35\ntwo bands: Gen 32:5, Gen 32:7, Gen 30:43; Deu 8:18; Psa 18:35, Psa 84:7; Job 17:9; Pro 4:18\nDeliver: Sa1 12:10, Sa1 24:15; Psa 16:1, Psa 25:20, Psa 31:2, Psa 43:1, Psa 59:1, Psa 59:2, Psa 119:134, Psa 142:6; Pro 18:19; Dan 3:17; Mat 6:13\nthe mother: Deu 22:6; Hos 10:14\nwith: Heb. upon\nthou: Gen 32:6; Exo 32:13; Num 23:19; Sa1 15:29; Mat 24:35; Ti2 2:13; Tit 1:2; Heb 6:17\nI will: Gen 28:13-15, Gen 46:3, Gen 46:4\nwhich: Sa1 25:8\nto his hand: Or, \"under his hand\" or power; i.e., what Providence had put in his power or possession.\na present: Gen 32:20, Gen 32:21, Gen 18:2, Gen 33:10, Gen 42:6, Gen 43:11, Gen 43:26; Sa1 25:27; Pro 17:8, Pro 18:16, Pro 19:6; Pro 21:14\nThis was a princely present. The \"thirty milch camels\" were particularly valuable; for among the Arabs they constitute a principal part of their riches; being every way so serviceable, that the providence of God appears peculiarly kind and wise in providing such animals for those countries, where no other animal could be of equal service. The she-camel gives milk continually, not ceasing even when with young; the milk of which, when mixed with three parts of water, affords the most pleasant and wholesome beverage.\nGen 30:43, Gen 31:9, Gen 31:16; Deu 8:18; Sa1 25:2; Job 1:3, Job 42:12\nspace: Gen 32:20, Gen 33:8, Gen 33:9; Psa 112:5; Pro 2:11; Isa 28:26; Mat 10:16\nWhose art: Gen 33:3\nI will appease: Gen 43:11; 1Sam. 25:17-35; Job 42:8, Job 42:9; Pro 15:18, Pro 16:14, Pro 21:14\nperadventure: Sa1 6:5; Kg1 20:31; Jon 3:9; Ti2 2:25\nof me: Heb. my face, Job 42:8, Job 42:9; Pro 6:35\nhis two wives: Gen 29:21-35, 30:1-24, Gen 35:18, Gen 35:22-26; Ti1 5:8\nthe ford Jabbok: Or, \"the ford of Jabbok,\" a stream which takes its rise in the mountains of Gilead, and falls into the Jordan to the south of the lake of Gennesareth. It is now called the Zerka. Deu 2:37, Deu 3:16; Jos 12:2\nsent them: Heb. caused to pass, Gen 32:23\nwrestled: Gen 30:8; Luk 13:24, Luk 22:44; Rom 8:26, Rom 8:27, Rom 15:30; Eph 6:12, Eph 6:18; Col 2:1, Col 4:12; Heb 5:7\nman: Gen 32:28, Gen 32:30, Gen 48:16; Isa 32:2; Hos 12:3-5; Co1 15:47\nbreaking of the day: Heb. ascending of the morning, Exo 14:27; Sol 2:17\nthat he: Gen 19:22; Num 14:13, Num 14:14; Isa 41:14, Isa 45:11; Hos 12:3, Hos 12:4; Mat 15:22-28; Luk 11:5-8\ntouched: Gen 32:32; Psa 30:6, Psa 30:7; Mat 26:41, Mat 26:44; Co2 12:7-9\nLet me go: Exo 32:10; Deu 9:14; Sol 7:5; Isa 45:11, Isa 64:7; Luk 24:28, Luk 24:29\nI will not: Sol 3:4; Hos 12:4; Luk 18:1-7; Rom 8:37; Co1 15:58; Co2 12:8, Co2 12:9; Heb 5:7\nthou bless: Ch1 4:10; Psa 67:1, Psa 67:6, Psa 67:7, Psa 115:12, Psa 115:13\nThy name: Gen 17:5, Gen 17:15, Gen 33:20, Gen 35:10; Num 13:16; Sa2 12:25; Kg2 17:34; Isa 62:2-4; Isa 65:15; Joh 1:42; Rev 2:17\nIsrael: i.e. a prince of God\nas 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 \u05d0\u05dc\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd, Elohim, God, the Almighty, with \u05d0\u05e0\u05e9\u05c1\u05d9\u05dd, anashim, weak, feeble men, as the word imports; seeing thou hast had power with the Almighty, surely thou shalt prevail over perishing mortals.\npower: Gen 32:24; Hos 12:3-5\nwith men: Gen 25:31, Gen 27:33-36, Gen 31:24, 36-55, Gen 33:4; Sa1 26:25; Pro 16:7\nWherefore: Gen 32:27; Deu 29:29; Jdg 13:16-18; Job 11:7; Pro 30:4; Isa 9:6; Luk 1:19\nblessed: Gen 32:26, Gen 27:28, Gen 27:29, Gen 28:3, Gen 28:4, Gen 28:13, Gen 28:14; Hos 6:1\nJacob: Gen 32:31\nPeniel: Gen 28:19; Jdg 8:8, Jdg 8:17; Kg1 12:25\nPeniel: 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.\nI have: Gen 16:13; Exo 24:10, Exo 24:11, Exo 33:14, Exo 33:19-23; Num 12:8; Deu 5:24, Deu 34:10; Jdg 6:22, Jdg 6:23, Jdg 13:21, Jdg 13:22; Isa 6:5; Joh 1:18; Co2 3:18, Co2 4:6; Gal 1:6; Eph 1:17; Col 1:15; Ti2 1:10; Heb 11:27\nrose upon: Gen 19:15, Gen 19:23; Mal 4:2\nhe halted: Gen 32:25; Psa 38:17; Co2 12:7, Co2 12:9\neat not: Sa1 5:5","title":"Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge: Genesis: Genesis Chapter 32","type":"page"}