GENESIS 32 JACOB WRESTLES WITH GOD AND MAN

GENESIS 32                        JACOB WRESTLES WITH GOD AND MAN     (The origin of Israel)

1.   Whom did Jacob meet when he went his way?(Gen. 32: 1)                                             

Ans:  He met the angels of the Lord.

2.      Jacob saw the ‘God’s host’. What did he call the place? (Gen. 32:2)                              

Ans:  Mahanaim.

3.      Why Jacob   was greatly afraid and distressed and   whom he was afraid?               

 Ans:  Jacob was afraid of his own brother, Esau, whom he had twice cheated 20 years before.

4.       How many men were coming with Esau? (Gen. 32:6) 

Ans:  Four hundred men.

5.      What was Jacob’s reasoning for separating into two bands? (Gen. 32:8)                  

 Ans:  He was afraid of Esau. In case he smote the one company, the other could escape.

6.      How many sons were with Jacob at this time? (Gen. 32: 22)                                         

Ans:  Eleven.

7.      Who did Jacob meet when he was alone? (Gen.  32:24-26) 

Ans:   “a man”

8.      How long did Jacob and the ‘man’ wrestle? (Gen. 32 : 24) 

Ans:  There wrestled a ‘man’ with him until the breaking of the day.

9.      “A man wrestled with him.” Who does Jacob wrestle with?                                          

 Ans:   That “man” is God himself.

10.  How we know that man is God himself? 

Ans:  Because Jacob is given a new name, “Israel” which means “he fights with God.”

11.  What was the significance of his old name? What was the significance of his new name? (Gen. 32: 27-28)

   

Ans:  Jacob meaning 'he who supplants', but Israel meaning 'he who struggles with God'

12.  Give the name of great men of the Bible whom God gave a new name?                

Ans: (a) Abram is renamed Abraham ("father of nations," 17:5)                                                            

 (b)   Sarai is renamed Sarah ("princess," 17:15)                                                                                                 

 (c)   Jacob is renamed as Israel (he struggle with God” 32:27-28)                                                

(d) Simon is renamed Peter ("rock," Matthew 16:16-18).

13.  What part of Jacob’s body was out of joint as they wrestled? (Gen. 32:25)                

Ans:  The hollow of his thigh.

14.  What did Jacob request of the angel (if to let Him go)?  (Gen. 32: 26)                            

Ans:  He would not let the ‘man’ go until he blessed him.

15.  What was Jacob’s name changed to and why? (Gen. 32:28)

Ans:  Israel, because as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

16.  What did Jacob call the name of the place because he had seen God face to face?(Gen. 32: 30).

Ans:  Peniel.

17.  What happened to Jacob physically in his wrestling match with the angel? (25,31-32).

Ans:  “….. The hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint”.
18.  Why do the children of Israel not eat of the sinew which shrank? (Gen. 32:32)

Ans:    Because God touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank. [As a perpetual reminder of this fateful encounter with God of Israel]
             

 
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