Hosea 12:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;

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  • Gen 35:15 : 15 And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el.
  • Gen 48:15 : 15 And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,
  • Exod 3:2-5 : 2 And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up. 3 And Moses said, I will go and see this strange thing, why the tree is not burned up, 4 And when the Lord saw him turning to one side to see, God said his name out of the tree, crying, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. 5 And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.
  • Ps 66:6 : 6 The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.
  • Isa 63:9 : 9 It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
  • Mal 3:1 : 1 See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.
  • Acts 7:30-35 : 30 At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree. 31 And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying, 32 I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it. 33 And the Lord said, Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. 34 Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt. 35 This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.
  • 1 Thess 4:17 : 17 Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.
  • Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.
  • Heb 6:13-18 : 13 For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself, 14 Saying, Be certain that I will give you my blessing, and make your numbers very great. 15 And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect. 16 For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath. 17 So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath; 18 So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;
  • Gen 28:11-19 : 11 And coming to a certain place, he made it his resting-place for the night, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones which were there, and putting it under his head he went to sleep in that place. 12 And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them. 13 And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping. 14 Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth. 15 And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you. 16 And Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord is in this place and I was not conscious of it. 17 And fear came on him, and he said, This is a holy place; this is nothing less than the house of God and the doorway of heaven. 18 And early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had been under his head, and put it up as a pillar and put oil on it. 19 And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.
  • Gen 32:9-9 : 9 Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you: 10 I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies. 11 Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child. 12 And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.
  • Gen 32:29 : 29 Then Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is my name to you? Then he gave him a blessing.
  • Gen 35:9-9 : 9 Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said, 10 Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel.

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    3 The Lord has a cause against Judah, and will give punishment to Jacob for his ways; he will give him the reward of his acts.

  • Gen 32:23-30
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    72%

    23 He took them and sent them over the stream with all he had.

    24 Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn.

    25 But when the man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob, he gave him a blow in the hollow part of his leg, so that his leg was damaged.

    26 And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing.

    27 Then he said, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.

    28 And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

    29 Then Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is my name to you? Then he gave him a blessing.

    30 And Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I have seen God face to face, and still I am living.

  • Hos 12:5
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    5 He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;

  • Judg 2:4
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    4 Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.

  • Gen 35:13-15
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    68%

    13 Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him.

    14 And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.

    15 And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el.

  • Gen 35:6-7
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    68%

    6 And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he and all his people.

    7 And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother.

  • Judg 6:12
    68%

    12 And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.

  • Gen 12:8
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    8 And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

  • Gen 32:1
    67%

    1 And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God.

  • Gen 35:3
    67%

    3 And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.

  • Heb 12:17
    66%

    17 For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.

  • Gen 28:12
    66%

    12 And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them.

  • Gen 35:9
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    9 Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,

  • Gen 31:11
    66%

    11 And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.

  • Gen 46:2
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    2 And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

  • Gen 31:23
    65%

    23 And taking the men of his family with him, he went after him for seven days and overtook him in the hill-country of Gilead.

  • Gen 31:42
    65%

    42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

  • Gen 31:13
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    13 I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.

  • Gen 30:8
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    8 And Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister, and I have overcome her: and she gave the child the name Naphtali.

  • Gen 27:36
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    36 And he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has twice taken my place? for he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a blessing for me?

  • 2 Sam 12:22
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    22 And he said, While the child was still living I went without food and gave myself up to weeping: for I said, Who is able to say that the Lord will not have mercy on me and give the child life?

  • Judg 6:17
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    17 So he said to him, If now I have grace in your eyes, then give me a sign that it is you who are talking to me.

  • Gen 48:16
    65%

    16 The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.

  • Judg 8:17
    65%

    17 And he had the tower of Penuel broken down and the men of the town put to death.

  • Judg 1:22
    65%

    22 And the family of Joseph went up against Beth-el, and the Lord was with them.

  • Judg 6:22
    65%

    22 Then Gideon was certain that he was the angel of the Lord; and Gideon said, I am in fear, O Lord God! for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.

  • Judg 8:8
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    8 So he went up from there to Penuel and made the same request to the men of Penuel; but they gave him the same answer as the men of Succoth had given.