Genesis 35:10
God said to him,“Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.” So God named him Israel.
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- Gen 17:5 : 5 No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.
- Gen 17:15 : 15 Then God said to Abraham,“As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.
- Gen 32:27-28 : 27 The man asked him,“What is your name?” He answered,“Jacob.” 28 “No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him,“but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”
- 1 Kgs 18:31 : 31 Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the LORD’s message had come,“Israel will be your name.”
- 2 Kgs 17:34 : 34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship the LORD; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.
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- Gen 32:26-305 verses88%
26Then the man said,“Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.”“I will not let you go,” Jacob replied,“unless you bless me.”
27The man asked him,“What is your name?” He answered,“Jacob.”
28“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him,“but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”
29Then Jacob asked,“Please tell me your name.”“Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.
30So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining,“Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”
- Gen 35:11-122 verses80%
11Then God said to him,“I am the Sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation– even a company of nations– will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!
12The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”
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9God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan Aram and blessed him.
- Gen 46:2-32 verses77%
2God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night and said,“Jacob, Jacob!” He replied,“Here I am!”
3He said,“I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
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5No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.
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9Then Jacob prayed,“O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you said to me,‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’
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15Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.
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5One will say,‘I belong to the LORD,’ and another will use the name‘Jacob.’ One will write on his hand,‘The LORD’s,’ and use the name‘Israel.’”
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3The LORD said to Jacob,“Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”
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4For the sake of my servant Jacob, Israel, my chosen one, I call you by name and give you a title of respect, even though you do not submit to me.
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15Then God said to Abraham,“As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.
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1The Return to Bethel Then God said to Jacob,“Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
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13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the sacred stone and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to your native land.’”
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13and the LORD stood at its top. He said,“I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.
- Exod 3:15-162 verses71%
15God also said to Moses,“You must say this to the Israelites,‘The LORD– the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob– has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my memorial from generation to generation.’
16“Go and bring together the elders of Israel and tell them,‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, appeared to me– the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob– saying,“I have attended carefully to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt,
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34Isaac’s Descendants Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:Esau and Israel.
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11In the dream the angel of God said to me,‘Jacob!’‘Here I am!’ I replied.
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16The LORD, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
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19He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.
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1The Lord Will Rescue His People Now, this is what the LORD says, the one who created you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel:“Don’t be afraid, for I will protect you. I call you by name, you are mine.
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20There he set up an altar and called it“The God of Israel is God.”
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2The LORD appeared to Isaac and said,“Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.
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19The LORD, who is the portion of the descendants of Jacob, is not like them. For he is the one who created everything, including the people of Israel whom he claims as his own. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
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24So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
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10He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,
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1So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him,“You must not marry a Canaanite woman!
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31Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the LORD’s message had come,“Israel will be your name.”
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4May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”
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2Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.