God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name."GENESIS 35:10+A Name of Great ImportanceThat he might have a sure pledge and testimony o...  Read More

As they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.GENESIS 35:5+Terror from GodThe neighbors [of Jacob] were so overwhelmed ...  Read More

"Let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."GENESIS 35:3+The Lord Has Been with ...  Read More

"Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."GENESIS 35:1+Recall the PromisesThe Lord orders the patriarch to build an altar at Bethel, and He reminds him ...  Read More

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there."GENESIS 35:1+From Grief to JoyIn extreme necessity and despair, as it were, God comes to the help of His patriarch, as is stated in Psalm 9:...  Read More

Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land."GENESIS 34:30+Do Not Rely on YourselfWhere is faith here and the remembrance of the pr...  Read More

Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem. . .. He bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent. There he erected an altar.GENESIS 33:18-20+An Altar Is Raised...  Read More

Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock.GENESIS 33:17+Good Fruits of DomesticityThe Holy Spirit set forth these matters, namely, to testify that all the...  Read More

"Please accept my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough."GENESIS 33:11+I Have Enough[Jacob] wants to say: "I have not brought a magnifice...  Read More

[Jacob] himself went on before them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.GENESIS 33:3+Honor and RespectAlthough Esau had previously been reconciled by the power...  Read More

Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him.+GENESIS 33:1God Changes the HeartThe matters recounted in this chapter are clear and easy because they ...  Read More

"I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered."GENESIS 32:30+Face to Face with Our LordThis is the joyful climax of this contest. For now Jacob returns from hell to heaven, from de...  Read More