'Face to Face' in the Bible
So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been preserved.”
Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
The Lord spoke to you face to face at the mountain from the midst of the fire,
Since that time no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,
When Gideon saw that he was the angel of the Lord, he said, “Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.”
and Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye;
You will not escape from his hand, for you will surely be captured and delivered into his hand; and you will see the king of Babylon eye to eye, and he will speak with you face to face, and you will go to Babylon.’”’
and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.