Hosea 12:4

God's Case Against Jacob's Heirs

³ In the womb he deceived his brother, and in his manhood he struggled with God. ⁴ He struggled with [the] angel and prevailed; he pleaded for his mercy. He met him at Bethel, and there he spoke with him. ⁵ Yahweh the God of hosts, Yahweh [is] his renowned name!

Face to Face

House of God

Beth-el

Jacob

Genesis 35:15

And Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

Genesis 28:11-19

And he arrived at a [certain] place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. And he took [one] of the stones of the place and put [it] under his head and slept at that place.

Genesis 32:9-12

Then Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your land and to your family, and I will deal well with you.'

Genesis 32:29

Then Jacob asked and said, "Please tell me your name." And he said, "Why do you ask this--for my name?" And he blessed him there.

Genesis 35:9-10

And God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-Aram, and he blessed him.

Genesis 48:15

And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, walked, The God who shepherded me {all my life} unto this day,

Exodus 3:2-5

And the angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush, and he looked, and there was the bush burning with fire, but the bush was not being consumed.

Psalm 66:6

He turned [the] sea into dry ground; they passed through the river on foot. There we rejoiced in him.

Isaiah 63:9

In all their distress, {there was no distress}, and the messenger of his {presence} saved them, in his love and compassion he himself redeemed them, and he lifted them up, and he supported them all [the] days of old.

Malachi 3:1

"Look! I [am] going to send my messenger, and he will prepare [the] way {before me}. And the Lord whom you [are] seeking will come suddenly to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, [in] whom you [are] taking pleasure--look!--[he is] about to come," says Yahweh of hosts.

Acts 7:30-35

"And [when] forty years had been completed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai in the flame of a burning bush.

1 Thessalonians 4:17

Then we who are alive, who remain, will be snatched away at the same time together with them in the clouds for a meeting with the Lord in the air, and thus we will be together with the Lord always.

Hebrews 5:7

who in the days of his flesh offered up both prayers and supplications, with loud crying and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard as a result of his reverence.

Hebrews 6:13-18

For [when] God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater to swear by, he swore by himself,