The Sunday School Lesson God Blesses Jacob (Israel) by David McGee
Sep 17, 2023
God Blesses Jacob (Israel) (36:08)
Referenced Scriptures: Genesis 32:1-32; Genesis 35:1-15; Proverbs 3:5-6
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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
Genesis 32:1-32
1) Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2) When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God‘s host." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
3) Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
4) He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now.
5) I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, men-servants, and maid-servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.‘"
6) The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
7) Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
8) and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."
9) Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good.‘
10) I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
11) Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.
12) You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can‘t be numbered because there are so many.‘"
13) He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:
14) two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
15) thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty she-donkeys and ten foals.
16) He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."
17) He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, ‘Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?‘
18) Then you shall say, ‘They are your servant, Jacob‘s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.‘"
19) He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
20) You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.‘" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."
21) So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the camp.
22) He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
23) He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
24) Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
25) When he saw that he didn‘t prevail against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob‘s thigh was strained, as he wrestled.
26) The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won‘t let you go, unless you bless me."
27) He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."
28) He said, "Your name will no longer be called ‘Jacob,‘ but, ‘Israel,‘ for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
29) Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
30) Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
31) The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
32) Therefore the children of Israel don‘t eat the sinew of the hip, which is on the hollow of the thigh, to this day, because he touched the hollow of Jacob‘s thigh in the sinew of the hip.
Genesis 35:1-15
1) God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."
2) Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
3) Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."
4) They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
5) They journeyed: and a terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they didn‘t pursue the sons of Jacob.
6) So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Bethel), he and all the people who were with him.
7) He built an altar there, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
8) Deborah, Rebekah‘s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.
9) God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
10) God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.
11) God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins.
12) The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."
13) God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
14) Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink-offering on it, and poured oil on it.
15) Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."
Proverbs 3:5-6
5) Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, And don‘t lean on your own understanding.
6) In all your ways acknowledge him, And he will direct your paths.
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