April 7 (Year One)
32 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2 And when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God’s camp!” So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom, 4 instructing them, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, ‘I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now. 5 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.’”
6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him.” 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps, 8 thinking, “If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will escape.”
9 And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,’ 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. 11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children. 12 But you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”
13 So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took a present for his brother Esau, 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15 thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. 16 These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove.” 17 He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’ 18 then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.’” 19 He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him, 20 and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.” 21 So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
22 The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. 24 And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. 25 When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” 27 And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” 28 Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.” 29 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. 30 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.” 31 The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. 32 Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip on the sinew of the thigh.
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Thomas - April 7, 2022 at 1:42 pm
From Verse 2
Mahanaim
Mahanaim (Hebrew: מַחֲניִם meaning two camps in Hebrew) is a place mentioned a number of times by the Bible said to be near Jabbok, beyond the Jordan River. Although two possible sites have been identified, the precise location of Mahanaim is very uncertain. The most widely accepted of the proposed sites lies about ten miles east of the Jordan River. Tell edh-Dhahab el-Gharbi, the western one of the twin Tulul adh-Dhahab tells, is a possible location. Mahanaim was said to be in the same general area as Jabesh-gilead. In the Biblical narrative, the first mentioned of Mahanaim occurs in the Book of Genesis as the place where Jacob, returning from Padan-aram to southern Canaan, had a vision of angels (Genesis 32:2). Believing it to be “God’s camp”, Jacob names the place Mahanaim (Hebrew for “Two Camps”, or “Two Companies”) to memorialize the occasion of his own company sharing the place with God’s. Later in the story, Jacob is moved by fear at the approach of his brother (whom he has reason to fear) and as a result divided his retinue into two hosts (two companies), hence the town built on the site took two hosts as its name.
https://www.definitions.net/definition/mahanaim
Tom Wolf - April 7, 2022 at 2:04 pm
What is the significance of Peniel in the Bible?
https://www.gotquestions.org/Peniel-in-the-Bible.html
Tom Wolf - April 7, 2022 at 2:12 pm
What is the meaning of Jacob wrestling with God?
https://www.gotquestions.org/Jacob-wrestling-with-God.html
Toma Hawk - April 9, 2022 at 1:42 pm
1 Jacob goes from one battle or war to another. Constantly having to establish or identify with one “camp” or side vs. another. Constantly wrestling with everyone and everything around him including being at odds with himself
* It started in the womb wrestling with his brother and with who would come into this world first
* it continued with his brother while growing up
* identity crisis camps of being indoorsy vs. outdoorsy minded & skilled
* making camp between which parent he was more associated with: mom vs dad
* choosing to cheat or be honest
* Choosing to be first place vs second place with the birthright (red stew bribe)
* Choosing to be first place vs second place with the blessing (Identity theft fraud)
* Integrity vs honesty
* Coveting (what others have) vs. contentment
* familial War vs. familial peace
* Home vs. Haran
* Greed vs. Tithe
* Idolatry/polytheism vs. Beth-El-atry/Monotheism
* One way ticket to PadanAram & Laban vs. Round trip ticket back home to Esau and parents
* breaking the ice vs. playing it safe & playing nice (Rachel at the well)
* Fight/flight vs. Responsibility with Leah: Firstborn switcharoo fraud acceptance of Leah & poetic justice vs. hypocrisy on his part by rejecting “karma”/eye for eye consequences
* Fight/flight vs. responsibility with Laban over being cheated
* Indentured servanthood/partnership vs. rolling stone/self-employed: business arrangements
* peacemaker vs. war wager in marriage
* giving up/fighting vs. perseverance/turning the other cheek with Laban’s cheating
* chooing between God/honest dealings vs. flesh/underhanded cheating: in response to Laban and his own previous business dealings
* Headship clarity/freedom vs. oppression/bondage with the “Who’s the boss?” question with his new family of him vs. Laban
* His father’s household faith vs. his father-in-law’s household faith
* Pleasing his wives & father-in-law vs. satisfying his conscience and Christ
* Esau
* God
Jacob was even at war and at odds with whether or not to continually be at war and at odds. He was constantly having to choose or be between 2 camps with justice vs. injustice and integrity vs. dishonesty and everything under the sun it seems.
Toma Hawk - April 9, 2022 at 1:46 pm
1 Jacob goes from one battle or war to another. Constantly having to establish or identify with one “camp” or side vs. another. Constantly wrestling with everyone and everything around him including being at odds with himself
* It started in the womb wrestling with his brother and with who would come into this world first
* it continued with his brother while growing up
* identity crisis camps of being indoorsy vs. outdoorsy minded & skilled
* making camp between which parent he was more associated with: mom vs dad
* choosing to cheat or be honest
* Choosing to be first place vs second place with the birthright (red stew bribe)
* Choosing to be first place vs second place with the blessing (Identity theft fraud)
* Integrity vs honesty
* Coveting (what others have) vs. contentment
* familial War vs. familial peace
* Home vs. Haran
* Greed vs. Tithe
* Idolatry/polytheism vs. Beth-El-atry/Monotheism
* One way ticket to PadanAram & Laban vs. Round trip ticket back home to Esau and parents
* breaking the ice vs. playing it safe & playing nice (Rachel at the well)
* Fight/flight vs. Responsibility with Leah: Firstborn switcharoo fraud acceptance of Leah & poetic justice vs. hypocrisy on his part by rejecting “karma”/eye for eye consequences
* Fight/flight vs. responsibility with Laban over being cheated
* Indentured servanthood/partnership vs. rolling stone/self-employed: business arrangements
* peacemaker vs. war wager in marriage
* giving up/fighting vs. perseverance/turning the other cheek with Laban’s cheating
* chooing between God/honest dealings vs. flesh/underhanded cheating: in response to Laban and his own previous business dealings
* Headship clarity/freedom vs. oppression/bondage with the “Who’s the boss?” question with his new family of him vs. Laban
* His father’s household faith vs. his father-in-law’s household faith
* Pleasing his wives & father-in-law vs. satisfying his conscience and Christ
* Esau
* God
Jacob was even at war and at odds with whether or not to continually be at war and at odds. He was constantly having to choose or be between 2 camps with justice vs. injustice and integrity vs. dishonesty and everything under the sun it seems.