Genesis 32:2

World English Bible (2000)

When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

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  • 2 Sam 2:8 : 8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
  • Josh 21:38 : 38 Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,
  • Josh 5:14 : 14 He said, "No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh's army." Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?"
  • 2 Sam 17:24 : 24 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
  • 1 Kgs 2:8 : 8 "Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, 'I will not put you to death with the sword.'
  • Ps 34:7 : 7 The angel of Yahweh encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
  • Ps 148:2 : 2 Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army!
  • Luke 2:13 : 13 Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God, and saying,
  • Song 6:13 : 13 Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Lover Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?
  • Dan 10:20 : 20 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go forth, behold, the prince of Greece shall come.
  • Ps 103:21 : 21 Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure.
  • 1 Kgs 4:14 : 14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
  • 2 Kgs 6:17 : 17 Elisha prayed, and said, "Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see." Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
  • 2 Sam 17:26-27 : 26 Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead. 27 It happened, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
  • 2 Sam 2:12 : 12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

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    1Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

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  • Gen 32:3-4
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    3Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

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    16Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn't know it."

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  • Gen 32:17-21
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    17He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'

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    21So the present passed over before him, and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

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    6The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."

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    8and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."

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  • Gen 32:27
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    27He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."

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    1Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.

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    2God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."

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    25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

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    8Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

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    3Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

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    47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

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    23He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

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    5He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."