Genesis 32:28

Jacob Wrestles With God

²⁷ “What is your name?” the man asked.

“Jacob,” he replied. ²⁸ “Your name will no longer be Jacob,” He said. “It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.” ²⁹ Then Jacob asked Him, “Please tell me Your name.”

But He answered, “Why do you ask My name?” And He blessed him there.

God and Men

Struggled with God

With God

Hast Thou Power With God

Striven With God

Israel

Jacob

No

Genesis 35:10

God said to him:

Your name is Jacob;
you will no longer be named Jacob,
but your name will be Israel.

So He named him Israel.

Genesis 17:5

Your name will no longer be Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I will make you the father of many nations.

Genesis 33:4

But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.

2 Kings 17:34

They are still practicing the former customs to this day. None of them fear the Lord or observe their statutes and ordinances, the law and commandments the Lord commanded the descendants of Jacob. He had renamed him Israel.

Genesis 17:15

God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah will be her name.

Genesis 25:31

Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”

Genesis 27:33-36

Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably. “Who was it then,” he said, “who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed!”

Genesis 31:24

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself!” God warned him. “Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

Genesis 31:36-55

Then Jacob became incensed and brought charges against Laban. “What is my crime?” he said to Laban. “What is my sin, that you have pursued me?

Genesis 32:24

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Genesis 33:20

And he set up an altar there and called it “God, the God of Israel.”

Numbers 13:16

These were the names of the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and Moses renamed Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua.

1 Samuel 26:25

Saul said to him, “You are blessed, my son David. You will certainly do great things and will also prevail.” Then David went on his way, and Saul returned home.

2 Samuel 12:25

and He sent a message through Nathan the prophet, who named him Jedidiah, because of the Lord.

1 Kings 18:31

Elijah took 12 stones—according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel will be your name”—

Proverbs 16:7

When a man’s ways please the Lord,
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Isaiah 62:2-4

Nations will see your righteousness
and all kings, your glory.
You will be called by a new name
that the Lord’s mouth will announce.

Isaiah 65:15

You will leave your name behind
as a curse for My chosen ones,
and the Lord God will kill you;
but He will give His servants another name.

Hosea 12:3-5

In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel,
and as an adult he wrestled with God.

John 1:42

and he brought Simon to Jesus.

When Jesus saw him, He said, “You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which means “Rock”).

Revelation 2:17

“Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.