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He found him at Bethel and talked with him there—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/hosea/12.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Yes, he wrestled with the angel and won. He wept and pleaded for a blessing from him. There at Bethel he met God face to face, and God spoke to him—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/hosea/12.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />He strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor. He met God at Bethel, and there God spoke with us—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/hosea/12.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/hosea/12.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him <i>in</i> Bethel, and there he spake with us;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/hosea/12.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Yes, he struggled with the Angel and prevailed; He wept, and sought favor from Him. He found Him <i>in</i> Bethel, And there He spoke to us—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/hosea/12.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Yes, he wrestled with the angel and prevailed; He wept and implored His favor. He found Him at Bethel, And there He spoke with us,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/hosea/12.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Yes, he wrestled with the angel and prevailed; He wept and sought His favor. He found Him at Bethel And there He spoke with us,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/hosea/12.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Yes, he wrestled with the angel and prevailed; He wept and sought His favor. He found Him at Bethel, And there He spoke with us,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/hosea/12.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Indeed, he wrestled with the angel and prevailed; He wept and sought His favor. He found Him at Bethel, And there He spoke with us,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/hosea/12.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />He wrestled with the angel and prevailed; He wept [in repentance] and sought His favor. He met Him at Bethel And there God spoke with [him and through him with] us—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/hosea/12.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Jacob struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/hosea/12.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Jacob struggled with the Angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor. He found him at Bethel, and there He spoke with him. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/hosea/12.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he spake with us,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/hosea/12.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />At Bethel, Jacob wrestled with an angel and won; then with tears in his eyes, he asked for a blessing, and God spoke to us there. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/hosea/12.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he spake with us;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/hosea/12.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />He struggled with the Messenger and won. Jacob cried and pleaded with him. Jacob found him at Bethel, and he talked with him there.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/hosea/12.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />he fought against an angel and won. He wept and asked for a blessing. And at Bethel God came to our ancestor Jacob and spoke with him. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/hosea/12.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />He even fought the angel and won; he cried and prayed to him. Then at Bethel he found him, and there he spoke with us—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/hosea/12.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/hosea/12.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />He struggled with an angel and prevailed; he wept and begged for his favor. He found God at Bethel, and there he spoke with him! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/hosea/12.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made petition to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with him,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/hosea/12.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spoke with us;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/hosea/12.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us— <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/hosea/12.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Indeed, he is a prince to the Messenger, "" And he overcomes [by] weeping, "" And he makes supplication to Him, "" At Bethel He finds him, "" And there He speaks with us,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/hosea/12.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Yea, he is a prince unto the Messenger, And he overcometh by weeping, And he maketh supplication to Him, At Bethel He doth find him, And there He doth speak with us,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/hosea/12.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And he will be a leader to the messenger, and he will prevail: he wept, and he will make supplication to him: in the house of God he will find him, and there he will speak with him.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/hosea/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/hosea/12.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And he prevailed over an angel, for he had been strengthened. He wept and petitioned him. He found him in Bethel, and there he has spoken to us.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/12.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />He contended with an angel and prevailed, he wept and entreated him. At Bethel he met with him, and there he spoke with him. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/12.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />He strove with the angel and prevailed, he wept and sought his favor; he met him at Bethel, and there he spoke with him.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/hosea/12.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Yea, he prevailed over the angel, he made supplication to him; he found him in Beth-el, and there he spoke with him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/hosea/12.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And he was a match for the power of an Angel and he begged of him in Bayth Eil; he found him and there he spoke with him<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/hosea/12.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />So he strove with an angel, and prevailed; He wept, and made supplication unto him; At Beth-el he would find him, And there he would speak with us;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/hosea/12.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and intreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there <i>a word</i> was spoken to them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/12-4.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpPG1oLnpGk?start=1835" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/hosea/12.htm">A Reproof of Ephraim, Judah, Jacob</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God. <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7786.htm" title="7786: wāy·yā·śar (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- Make princes, have power, reign. A primitive root; properly, to vanquish; by implication, to rule.">Yes, he struggled</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">with</a> <a href="/hebrew/4397.htm" title="4397: mal·’āḵ (N-ms) -- A messenger. From an unused root meaning to despatch as a deputy; a messenger; specifically, of God, i.e. An angel.">the angel</a> <a href="/hebrew/3201.htm" title="3201: way·yu·ḵāl (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To be able, have power. Or yakowl; a primitive root; to be able, literally or morally.">and prevailed;</a> <a href="/hebrew/1058.htm" title="1058: bā·ḵāh (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To weep, bewail. A primitive root; to weep; generally to bemoan.">he wept</a> <a href="/hebrew/2603.htm" title="2603: way·yiṯ·ḥan·nen- (Conj-w:: V-Hitpael-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore.">and sought His favor;</a> <a href="/hebrew/lōw (Prep:: 3ms) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/1008.htm" title="1008: bêṯ- (Prep) -- From bayith and 'el; house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine."></a> <a href="/hebrew/4672.htm" title="4672: yim·ṣā·’en·nū (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms:: 3mse) -- To attain to, find. ">he found Him</a> <a href="/hebrew/1008.htm" title="1008: ’êl (N-proper-fs) -- From bayith and 'el; house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine.">at Bethel</a> <a href="/hebrew/1696.htm" title="1696: yə·ḏab·bêr (V-Piel-Imperf-3ms) -- To speak. A primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively, to speak; rarely to subdue.">and spoke</a> <a href="/hebrew/5973.htm" title="5973: ‘im·mā·nū (Prep:: 1cp) -- From amam; adverb or preposition, with, in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix.">with Him</a> <a href="/hebrew/8033.htm" title="8033: wə·šām (Conj-w:: Adv) -- There, thither. A primitive particle; there then; often thither, or thence.">there—</a> </span><span class="reftext">5</span>the LORD is the God of Hosts—the LORD is His name of renown.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/32-24.htm">Genesis 32:24-30</a></span><br />So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak. / When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled. / Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/28-12.htm">Genesis 28:12-15</a></span><br />And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder. / And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie. / Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/35-9.htm">Genesis 35:9-15</a></span><br />After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him. / And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel. / And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/3-2.htm">Exodus 3:2-6</a></span><br />There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed. / So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?” / When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/33-11.htm">Exodus 33:11</a></span><br />Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun would not leave the tent.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/judges/6-11.htm">Judges 6:11-24</a></span><br />Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites. / And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.” / “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/19-11.htm">1 Kings 19:11-13</a></span><br />Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. / After the earthquake there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a still, small voice. / When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/6-1.htm">Isaiah 6:1-5</a></span><br />In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple. / Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. / And they were calling out to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory.” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/63-9.htm">Isaiah 63:9</a></span><br />In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/1-12.htm">Zechariah 1:12-13</a></span><br />Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?” / So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/3-1.htm">Malachi 3:1</a></span><br />“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/1-11.htm">Luke 1:11-13</a></span><br />Just then an angel of the Lord appeared to Zechariah, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. / When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and gripped with fear. / But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/22-43.htm">Luke 22:43</a></span><br />Then an angel from heaven appeared to Him and strengthened Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/1-51.htm">John 1:51</a></span><br />Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/20-12.htm">John 20:12</a></span><br />and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and the other at the feet.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us;</p><p class="hdg">angel.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/32-29.htm">Genesis 32:29</a></b></br> And Jacob asked <i>him</i>, and said, Tell <i>me</i>, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore <i>is</i> it <i>that</i> thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/48-15.htm">Genesis 48:15</a></b></br> And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/3-2.htm">Exodus 3:2-5</a></b></br> And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush <i>was</i> not consumed… </p><p class="hdg">made.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/32-9.htm">Genesis 32:9-12</a></b></br> And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hebrews/5-7.htm">Hebrews 5:7</a></b></br> Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;</p><p class="hdg">found.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/28-11.htm">Genesis 28:11-19</a></b></br> And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put <i>them for</i> his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/35-9.htm">Genesis 35:9</a></b></br> And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.</p><p class="hdg">spake.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/66-6.htm">Psalm 66:6</a></b></br> He turned the sea into dry <i>land</i>: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-17.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:17</a></b></br> Then we which are alive <i>and</i> remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hebrews/6-13.htm">Hebrews 6:13-18</a></b></br> For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/daniel/10-13.htm">Angel</a> <a href="/hosea/10-15.htm">Bethel</a> <a href="/hosea/10-15.htm">Beth-El</a> <a href="/hosea/10-7.htm">Face</a> <a href="/daniel/11-30.htm">Favor</a> <a href="/daniel/11-11.htm">Fight</a> <a href="/hosea/5-6.htm">Find</a> <a href="/hosea/10-2.htm">Found</a> <a href="/daniel/9-20.htm">Grace</a> <a href="/hosea/11-10.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/daniel/4-13.htm">Messenger</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-31.htm">Met</a> <a href="/daniel/7-21.htm">Overcame</a> <a href="/revelation/21-7.htm">Overcometh</a> <a href="/hosea/12-3.htm">Power</a> <a href="/daniel/7-21.htm">Prevailed</a> <a href="/hosea/12-3.htm">Prince</a> <a href="/daniel/9-20.htm">Request</a> <a href="/hosea/7-10.htm">Sought</a> <a href="/hosea/10-4.htm">Speak</a> <a href="/hosea/12-3.htm">Strove</a> <a href="/hosea/12-3.htm">Struggled</a> <a href="/daniel/9-20.htm">Supplication</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-32.htm">Weeping</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-31.htm">Wept</a> <a href="/hosea/11-12.htm">Words</a> <a href="/hosea/12-3.htm">Wrestled</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/zechariah/1-9.htm">Angel</a> <a href="/amos/3-14.htm">Bethel</a> <a href="/amos/3-14.htm">Beth-El</a> <a href="/hosea/13-8.htm">Face</a> <a href="/zechariah/7-2.htm">Favor</a> <a href="/joel/2-5.htm">Fight</a> <a href="/hosea/12-8.htm">Find</a> <a href="/hosea/12-8.htm">Found</a> <a href="/joel/2-13.htm">Grace</a> <a href="/hosea/12-11.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/haggai/1-13.htm">Messenger</a> <a href="/amos/3-3.htm">Met</a> <a href="/luke/5-26.htm">Overcame</a> <a href="/1_john/5-4.htm">Overcometh</a> <a href="/hosea/13-14.htm">Power</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-7.htm">Prevailed</a> <a href="/micah/7-3.htm">Prince</a> <a href="/zechariah/6-7.htm">Request</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-6.htm">Sought</a> <a href="/amos/7-16.htm">Speak</a> <a href="/john/6-52.htm">Strove</a> <a href="/john/18-36.htm">Struggled</a> <a href="/zechariah/12-10.htm">Supplication</a> <a href="/joel/1-5.htm">Weeping</a> <a href="/matthew/26-75.htm">Wept</a> <a href="/hosea/13-1.htm">Words</a> <a href="/genesis/30-8.htm">Wrestled</a><div class="vheading2">Hosea 12</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/12-1.htm">A reproof of Ephraim, Judah, and Jacob.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">3. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/12-3.htm">By former favors he exhorts to repentance.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/hosea/12-7.htm">Ephraim's sins provoke God.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Jacob's struggle with the angel is symbolic of his spiritual struggle and transformation. The angel is often interpreted as a theophany, a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ, which is why Jacob's prevailing is significant. It represents the perseverance of faith and the importance of wrestling with God in prayer and seeking His blessing. This event took place near the Jabbok River, a tributary of the Jordan, highlighting the geographical significance of the location in Jacob's journey back to Canaan.<p><b>he wept and sought His favor;</b><br>Jacob's weeping and seeking favor indicate his deep repentance and desire for reconciliation with God. This emotional plea underscores the sincerity required in seeking God's blessing and forgiveness. It reflects the humility and brokenness necessary for spiritual growth and transformation. This act of seeking favor is a precursor to the blessings Jacob receives, illustrating the biblical principle that God honors those who earnestly seek Him (<a href="/hebrews/11-6.htm">Hebrews 11:6</a>).<p><b>he found Him at Bethel</b><br>Bethel, meaning "House of God," is a significant location in Jacob's life. It is where he first encountered God in a dream (<a href="/genesis/28-10.htm">Genesis 28:10-19</a>) and where he later returned to fulfill his vow to God (<a href="/genesis/35.htm">Genesis 35:1-7</a>). Bethel serves as a place of divine encounter and revelation, symbolizing God's faithfulness and the fulfillment of His promises. It is a reminder of the importance of returning to places of spiritual significance and renewing one's commitment to God.<p><b>and spoke with Him there—</b><br>The communication between Jacob and God at Bethel emphasizes the personal relationship God desires with His people. It highlights the importance of listening to God's voice and responding in obedience. This encounter at Bethel is a pivotal moment in Jacob's life, marking a transformation in his character and a deepening of his faith. It serves as a type of Christ, foreshadowing the ultimate revelation of God through Jesus, who is the mediator between God and humanity (<a href="/1_timothy/2-5.htm">1 Timothy 2:5</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/j/jacob.htm">Jacob</a></b><br>The patriarch who wrestled with the angel, representing a pivotal moment of transformation and divine encounter in his life.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_angel.htm">The Angel</a></b><br>A divine messenger with whom Jacob wrestled, often interpreted as a theophany or a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/b/bethel.htm">Bethel</a></b><br>A significant location in Jacob's life where he encountered God, meaning "House of God" in Hebrew.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/w/wrestling.htm">Wrestling</a></b><br>The physical and spiritual struggle Jacob experienced, symbolizing perseverance in seeking God's blessing.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/w/weeping_and_seeking_favor.htm">Weeping and Seeking Favor</a></b><br>Jacob's emotional and spiritual posture during his encounter, indicating repentance and earnest desire for God's blessing.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/p/perseverance_in_prayer.htm">Perseverance in Prayer</a></b><br>Just as Jacob wrestled with the angel, believers are encouraged to persist in prayer, seeking God's blessing and guidance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_humility.htm">Repentance and Humility</a></b><br>Jacob's weeping signifies a heart of repentance and humility, essential attitudes for approaching God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/d/divine_encounters.htm">Divine Encounters</a></b><br>Bethel represents a place of divine encounter, reminding believers to seek and cherish moments of closeness with God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/transformation_through_struggle.htm">Transformation through Struggle</a></b><br>Jacob's wrestling led to a transformation, illustrating how struggles can lead to spiritual growth and change.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/seeking_god's_favor.htm">Seeking God's Favor</a></b><br>Actively seeking God's favor, as Jacob did, is crucial for experiencing His presence and blessings in our lives.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hosea_12.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hosea 12</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_did_jacob_wrestle_with_god.htm">Hosea 12:3–4: How can Jacob physically wrestle with God if God is portrayed elsewhere as omnipotent and spiritual? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_hosea_9_15_show_god's_love.htm">In Hosea 9:15, how do we reconcile an 'all-loving' God with the statement that God hates His people in Gilgal?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_highlight_jacob's_aram_flight.htm">Hosea 12:12: Why emphasize Jacob's flight to Aram when there is little archaeological evidence to confirm such a historical event?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_hosea_12_8_contradict_israel's_exile.htm">Hosea 12:8: Does Israel's claim of innocence here contradict passages in which Israel is already punished or exiled?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hosea/12.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 4.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him.</span> As Jacob's position at birth symbolized the pre-eminence which God's electing love had in store for him, and as in his manhood's prime he put forth such earnestness and energy to obtain the blessing, so Israel, by the example of their forefather, are encouraged to like strenuous exertion with like certainty of success. The example is more fully described and dwelt on in this verse for the purpose of more powerfully stimulating the Israelites of the prophet's day to imitate it. From this verse we learn the following facts: <p><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> the nature of the conflict as of a spiritual kind; <p><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> the visible embodiment of the invisible deity, so that the angel is not an entire identification with God in the preceding verse, but the organ of Divine manifestation; and <p><span class="note_emph">(3)</span> the weapons used, or the means employed, namely, weeping and supplication, in a word, the instrumentality of prayer; and . . . <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/hosea/12-4.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Yes, he struggled</span><br /><span class="heb">וָיָּ֤שַׂר</span> <span class="translit">(wāy·yā·śar)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7786.htm">Strong's 7786: </a> </span><span class="str2">Make princes, have power, reign </span><br /><br /><span class="word">with</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶל־</span> <span class="translit">(’el-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> </span><span class="str2">Near, with, among, to</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the Angel</span><br /><span class="heb">מַלְאָךְ֙</span> <span class="translit">(mal·’āḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4397.htm">Strong's 4397: </a> </span><span class="str2">A messenger, of God, an angel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and prevailed;</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיֻּכָ֔ל</span> <span class="translit">(way·yu·ḵāl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3201.htm">Strong's 3201: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be able, have power</span><br /><br /><span class="word">he wept</span><br /><span class="heb">בָּכָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(bā·ḵāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1058.htm">Strong's 1058: </a> </span><span class="str2">To weep, to bemoan</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and sought His favor;</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּתְחַנֶּן־</span> <span class="translit">(way·yiṯ·ḥan·nen-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2603.htm">Strong's 2603: </a> </span><span class="str2">To bend, stoop in kindness to an inferior, to favor, bestow, to implore</span><br /><br /><span class="word">he found Him</span><br /><span class="heb">יִמְצָאֶ֔נּוּ</span> <span class="translit">(yim·ṣā·’en·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4672.htm">Strong's 4672: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present</span><br /><br /><span class="word">at Bethel,</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵל֙</span> <span class="translit">(’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1008.htm">Strong's 1008: </a> </span><span class="str2">Bethel -- 'house of God', a city in Ephraim, also a place in southern Judah</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and there</span><br /><span class="heb">וְשָׁ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(wə·šām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8033.htm">Strong's 8033: </a> </span><span class="str2">There, then, thither</span><br /><br /><span class="word">He spoke</span><br /><span class="heb">יְדַבֵּ֥ר</span> <span class="translit">(yə·ḏab·bêr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1696.htm">Strong's 1696: </a> </span><span class="str2">To arrange, to speak, to subdue</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with us—</span><br /><span class="heb">עִמָּֽנוּ׃</span> <span class="translit">(‘im·mā·nū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | first person common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5973.htm">Strong's 5973: </a> </span><span class="str2">With, equally with</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/12-4.htm">Hosea 12:4 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/12-4.htm">Hosea 12:4 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/12-4.htm">Hosea 12:4 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/12-4.htm">Hosea 12:4 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/hosea/12-4.htm">Hosea 12:4 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/12-4.htm">Hosea 12:4 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/12-4.htm">Hosea 12:4 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/12-4.htm">Hosea 12:4 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/12-4.htm">Hosea 12:4 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/hosea/12-4.htm">Hosea 12:4 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/hosea/12-4.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 12:4 Indeed he struggled with the angel (Ho Hs Hos.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/hosea/12-3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Hosea 12:3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Hosea 12:3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/hosea/12-5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Hosea 12:5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Hosea 12:5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>