Hosea 12:4

God's Case Against Jacob's Heirs

³ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his strength he wrestled with God. ⁴ Yea, he wrestled with the Angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us, ⁵ even Jehovah, the God of hosts, Jehovah is his memorial.

Face to Face

House of God

Beth-el

Jacob

Genesis 35:15

And Jacob called the name of the place where God had talked with him, Beth-el.

Genesis 28:11-19

And he lighted on a certain place, and lodged there, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and made it his pillow, and lay down in that place.

Genesis 32:9-12

And Jacob said, God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who saidst unto me: Return into thy country and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good,

Genesis 32:29

And Jacob asked and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, How is it that thou askest after my name? And he blessed him there.

Genesis 35:9-10

And God appeared to Jacob again after he had come from Padan-Aram, and blessed him.

Genesis 48:15

And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God that shepherded me all my life long to this day,

Exodus 3:2-5

And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a thorn-bush: and he looked, and behold, the thorn-bush burned with fire, and the thorn-bush was not being consumed.

Psalm 66:6

He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the river on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

Isaiah 63:9

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days of old.

Malachi 3:1

Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me; and the Lord whom ye seek will suddenly come to his temple, and the Angel of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Acts 7:30-35

And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire of a bush.

1 Thessalonians 4:17

then we, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we shall be always with the Lord.

Hebrews 5:7

Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;)

Hebrews 6:13-18

For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,