Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

• 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.