Genesis 32:7

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

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  • Gen 35:3 : 3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
  • Exod 14:10 : 10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
  • Ps 18:4-5 : 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
  • Ps 31:13 : 13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
  • Ps 55:4-5 : 4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
  • Ps 61:2 : 2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
  • Ps 107:6 : 6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
  • Ps 142:4 : 4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
  • Prov 2:11 : 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
  • Isa 28:26 : 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
  • Matt 8:26 : 26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
  • Matt 10:16 : 16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
  • John 16:33 : 33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
  • 2 Cor 1:4 : 4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
  • 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
  • 2 Tim 3:12 : 12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
  • Gen 32:11 : 11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

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  • Gen 32:8
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    8And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

  • Gen 33:1
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    1And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

  • Gen 32:6
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    6And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

  • Gen 32:16-23
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    16And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

    17And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?

    18Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.

    19And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

    20And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.

    21So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.

    22And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.

    23And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

  • Gen 32:2-4
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    72%

    2And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

    3And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

    4And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:

  • Gen 32:13-14
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    13And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

    14Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

  • Gen 32:11
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    11Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

  • Gen 31:31
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    31And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.

  • Gen 31:17
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    17Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

  • Gen 30:42
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    42But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

  • Gen 36:6
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    6And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.

  • Gen 30:40
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    40And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

  • Gen 35:5
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    5And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.