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Hosea 12:3
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In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel,and as an adult he wrestled with God.
In the womb he took his brother by the heel; And in his manhood he had power with God.
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God.
In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And in his mature strength he contended with God.
Their ancestor Jacob held on to his brother's heel while the two of them were being born. When he grew to be a man, he wrestled with God.
In their mother's womb he took his brother by the heel, And in his maturity he contended with God.
Hee tooke his brother by the heele in the wombe, and by his strength he had power with God,
In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And in his maturity he contended with God.
In the womb he took his brother by the heel,And in his maturity he wrestled with God.
In the womb he grasped his brother's heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
Even before Jacob was born, he cheated his brother, and when he grew up, he fought against God.
Adonai also has a grievance against Y'hudah; he will punish Ya‘akov according to his ways and pay him back for his misdeeds.
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his strength he wrestled with God.
While Jacob was still in his mother's womb, he began to trick his brother. Jacob was a strong young man, and at that time he fought with God.
In the womb he deceived his brother, and by his might he became great in the presence of God;
Their ancestor Jacob struggled with his twin brother Esau while the two of them were still in their mother's womb; when Jacob grew up, he fought against God—
In the womb he deceived his brother, and in his manhood he struggled with God.
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he contended with God.
In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he had power with God:
In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;
The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways, according to his doings will He recompense him.
Hee tooke his brother by the heele in the wombe, and by his strength he had power with God.
He toke his brother by the heele when he was yet in his mothers wombe, and in his strength he wrestled with God:
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.
In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he had power with God:
In the womb he took his brother by the heel; And in his manhood he had power with God.
In the wombe he supplauntide his brother, and in his strengthe he was dressid with the aungel.
In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he had power with God:
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
In the womb he attacked his brother; in his manly vigor he struggled with God.
Even in the womb, Jacob struggled with his brother; when he became a man, he even fought with God.
Before he was born he took his brother by the heel. And when he was grown he fought with God.
In the womb he tried to supplant his brother, and in his manhood he strove with God.
In the womb, took he his brother by the heel; and, in his manly vigour, strove he with God:
In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength he had success with an angel.
In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God.
In the womb he took his brother by the heel, And by his strength he was a prince with God,
He toke his brother by the hele, when he was yet in his mothers wombe: and in his strength he wrestled with God.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
took: Genesis 25:26, Romans 9:11
had: etc. Heb. was a prince, or, behaved himself princely, Genesis 32:24-28, James 5:16-18
Reciprocal: Genesis 16:10 - the angel Genesis 32:25 - that he Genesis 32:28 - power Joshua 5:13 - a man Judges 2:1 - And an angel Psalms 24:10 - The Lord Song of Solomon 3:4 - I held Isaiah 63:9 - the angel Zechariah 1:10 - the man Zechariah 12:8 - as the Zechariah 13:7 - the man Malachi 3:1 - even John 1:18 - he hath Acts 7:30 - an Philippians 2:6 - thought Colossians 2:1 - what
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since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Let peoples serve you, And nations bow down to you. Be master over your brethren, And let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, And blessed be those who bless you!"
Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
And Laban said to him, "Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."
For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased to a great amount; the LORD has blessed you since my coming. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?"
So it was, from the time that he had made him overseer of his house and all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had in the house and in the field.
But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
'He bows down, he lies down as a lion;And as a lion, who shall rouse him?' Genesis 49:9 ">[fn] "Blessed is he who blesses you,And cursed is he who curses you."
His name shall endure forever; His name shall continue as long as the sun. And men shall be blessed in Him; All nations shall call Him blessed.
And the King will answer and say to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He took his brother by the heel in the womb,.... That is, Jacob took his brother Esau by the heel, as he came forth from his mother's womb; the history of it is in Genesis 25:25. It is here observed, upon mentioning the name of Jacob in Hosea 12:2, meaning the posterity, of the patriarch; but here he himself is intended, and occasionally taken notice of, to show how very different his posterity were from him, and how sadly degenerated; as well as to upbraid them with ingratitude, whose ancestors, and they also, had received such and so many favours from the Lord; Jacob the patriarch was a hero from the womb, but they transgressors from it; this action of his observed was a presage and pledge of his having the superiority of his brother, and of his getting the birthright and blessing from him. So the Targum,
"prophet, say unto them, was it not said of Jacob, before he was born, that he would be greater than his brother?''
see Romans 9:11. In this action there was something divine, miraculous, and preternatural; it was not the effort of nature merely, but contrary to it, or at least above it; and not done by chance, but ordered by the providence of God, as a prediction and testification of his future greatness, and even of his posterity's, in times yet to come, as Kimchi observes, who refers to Obadiah 1:18;
and by his strength he had power with God; the Targum is, with the angel, as in Hosea 12:4; he is called a man in the history of this event in Genesis 32:24; not that he was a mere man, since he is here expressly called God, and afterwards the Lord God of hosts; and there it is evident, from the context, he was a divine Person, and no other than the Son of God; who, though not as yet incarnate, appeared in a human form, as a presage of his future incarnation; though this was not a mere apparition, spectre, or phantasm, as Josephus t calls it; for it was not in a dream, or in a visionary way, that this wrestling and striving was between this divine Person in this form and Jacob, but in reality; it was a real substance which the Son of God formed, animated, actuated, and assumed, for that time and purpose, and then laid it aside; which touched Jacob, and he touched that, laid hold on it, and held it fast, and strove with it, and had power over it, and over God in it; even over him that is God over all, the true God and eternal life, the Lord Jesus Christ; not a created God, or God by office, but by nature; as the perfections that are in him, and the works and worship ascribed to him, declare: now Jacob had power over him "by his strength"; not by his natural strength; either of his body, which could not have been equal to the strength of this human body assumed for the time, as it was used and managed by a divine Person, unless he had been extraordinarily assisted and strengthened; or of his mind and soul, not by any spiritual strength he had of himself; but by what he had from this divine Person, with whom he wrestled; who put strength into him, and supported and increased the power and strength of faith in prayer; so that he prevailed over him, and got the blessing, for which reason his name was called Israel, Genesis 32:28.
t Antiqu. l. 1. c. 20. sect. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He took his brother by the heel in the womb - Whether or no the act of Jacob was beyond the strength, ordinarily given to infants in the womb, the meaning of the act was beyond manâs wisdom to declare. Whence the Jews paraphrased , âWas it not predicted of your lather Jacob, before he was born, that he should become greater than his brother?â Yet this was not fulfilled until more than 500 years afterward, nor completely until the time of David. These gifts were promised to Jacob out of the free mercy of God, antecedent to all deserts. But Jacob, thus chosen without desert, showed forth the power of faith; âBy his strength he had power with God.â : âThe strength by which he did this, was Godâs strength, as well as that by which God contended with him; yet it is well called his, as being by God given to him. âYet he had power with God,â God so ordering it, that the strength which was in Jacob, should put itself forth with greater force, than that in the assumed body, whereby He so dealt with Jacob. God, as it were, bore the office of two persons, showing in Jacob more strength than He put forth in the Angel.â âBy virtue of that faith in Jacob, it is related that God âcouldâ not prevail against him. He could not because he would not overthrow his faith and constancy. By the touch in the hollow of his thigh, He but added strength to his faith, showing him who it was who wrestled with him, and that He willed to bless him.â For thereon Jacob said those words which have become a proverb of earnest supplication, âI will not let thee go, except thou bless me, and, I have seen God, face to face, and my life is preservedâ Genesis 32:26, Genesis 32:30. : âHe was strengthened by the blessing of Him whom he overcame.â
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hosea 12:3. He took his brother by the heel — See on Genesis 25:26; Genesis 32:24, &c.
