Hosea 12:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Israel Must Return to the God of Jacob In the womb he attacked his brother; in his manly vigor he struggled with God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 25:26 : 26 When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
  • Gen 32:24-28 : 24 So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him. 26 Then the man said,“Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.”“I will not let you go,” Jacob replied,“unless you bless me.” 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.”
  • Rom 9:11 : 11 even before they were born or had done anything good or bad(so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)–
  • Jas 5:16-18 : 16 So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness. 17 Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months! 18 Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.

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  • Hos 12:4
    83%

    4He struggled with an angel and prevailed; he wept and begged for his favor. He found God at Bethel, and there he spoke with him!

  • Gen 32:23-31
    9 verses
    77%

    23He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.

    24So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

    25When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

    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.”

    31The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.

  • Gen 25:26
    75%

    26When his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau’s heel, they named him Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

  • Gen 27:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35But Isaac replied,“Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”

    36Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”

  • Gen 30:8
    71%

    8Then Rachel said,“I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.

  • 1 Chr 5:2
    71%

    2Though Judah was the strongest among his brothers and a leader descended from him, the right of the firstborn belonged to Joseph.)

  • Hos 12:2
    70%

    2The LORD also has a covenant lawsuit against Judah; he will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

  • Gen 25:22-24
    3 verses
    70%

    22But the children struggled inside her, and she said,“Why is this happening to me?” So she asked the LORD,

    23and the LORD said to her,“Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you. One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

    24When the time came for Rebekah to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

  • Gen 49:24-25
    2 verses
    69%

    24But his bow will remain steady, and his hands will be skillful; because of the hands of the Powerful One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

    25because of the God of your father, who will help you, because of the Sovereign God, who will bless you with blessings from the sky above, blessings from the deep that lies below, and blessings of the breasts and womb.

  • Gen 31:23
    69%

    23So he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob for seven days. He caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

  • Gen 27:40
    69%

    40You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck.”

  • Gen 32:11
    69%

    11Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.

  • Rom 9:12
    68%

    12it was said to her,“The older will serve the younger,”

  • Gen 38:29
    68%

    29But then he drew back his hand, and his brother came out before him. She said,“How you have broken out of the womb!” So he was named Perez.

  • Mic 5:3
    68%

    3So the LORD will hand the people of Israel over to their enemies until the time when the woman in labor gives birth. Then the rest of the king’s countrymen will return to be reunited with the people of Israel.

  • Gen 38:27
    68%

    27When it was time for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

  • Gen 33:3
    67%

    3But Jacob himself went on ahead of them, and he bowed toward the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

  • Gen 16:12
    67%

    12He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”

  • Gen 31:29
    67%

    29I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night,‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’

  • Gen 25:33
    67%

    33But Jacob said,“Swear an oath to me now.” So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

  • Gen 48:19
    67%

    19But his father refused and said,“I know, my son, I know. He too will become a nation and he too will become great. In spite of this, his younger brother will be even greater and his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”

  • Gen 27:30
    67%

    30Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

  • Gen 32:13
    67%

    13Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

  • Acts 7:9
    67%

    9The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,