Genesis 32:24

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Summary

Genesis 32:24

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

Wrestled

Man

1 Corinthians 15:47

Breaking of the day

Exodus 14:27

Song of Songs 2:17

Bible References

Wrestled

So Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed.” And she named him Naphtali.

“Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground.

In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;

Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

For our struggle is not against

flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on your behalf and for those who are at Laodicea, and for all those who have not personally seen my face,

Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand

perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

In the days of His flesh,

He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety.

Man

He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”

The angel who has redeemed me from all evil,

Bless the lads;

And may my name live on in them,
And the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

Each will be like a refuge from the wind
And a shelter from the storm,
Like

streams of water in a dry country,

Like the shade of a huge rock in a parched land.

In the womb he took his brother by the heel,
And in his maturity he contended with God.

The first man is from the earth,

earthy; the second man is from heaven.

Breaking of the day

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state at daybreak, while the Egyptians were fleeing right into it; then the Lord

overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

“Until the cool of the day when the shadows flee away,
Turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle
Or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.”