Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.

Bible References

His two wives

Genesis 29:21
And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.
Genesis 30:1
And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no sons, Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I die.
Genesis 35:18
And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.
1 Timothy 5:8
But if any man does not provide for his own, and especially those belonging his household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

The ford jabbok

Deuteronomy 2:37
Only to the land of the sons of Ammon thou did not come near, all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wherever LORD our God forbad us.
Deuteronomy 3:16
And I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border [of it], even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the sons of Ammon,
Joshua 12:2
Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon,