Genesis 32:30

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Genesis 32:30

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

Jacob

Genesis 28:19

Judges 8:8

1 Kings 12:25

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General references

Judges 8:8

Bible References

Jacob

and named the place Bethel, though previously the city was named Luz.

He went from there to Penuel and asked the same thing from them. The men of Penuel answered just as the men of Succoth had answered.

Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built Penuel.

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So she called the Lord who spoke to her: The God Who Sees, for she said, “In this place, have I actually seen the One who sees me?”

and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath His feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire stone, as clear as the sky itself.

Then He replied, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

I speak with him directly,
openly, and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the Lord.

So why were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

You said, ‘Look, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard His voice from the fire. Today we have seen that God speaks with a person, yet he still lives.

No prophet has arisen again in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.

When Gideon realized that He was the Angel of the Lord, he said, “Oh no, Lord God! I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face!”

The Angel of the Lord did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah realized that it was the Angel of the Lord.

Then I said:

Woe is me for I am ruined
because I am a man of unclean lips
and live among a people of unclean lips,
and because my eyes have seen the King,
the Lord of Hosts.

No one has ever seen God.
The One and Only Son—
the One who is at the Father’s side—
He has revealed Him.

We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at

the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.

For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.

I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from Him who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you a spirit

of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.

He is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn over all creation.

This has now been made evident
through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus,
who has abolished death
and has brought life and immortality to light
through the gospel.

By faith he left Egypt behind, not being afraid of the king’s anger, for Moses persevered as one who sees Him who is invisible.

General references

He went from there to Penuel and asked the same thing from them. The men of Penuel answered just as the men of Succoth had answered.