Genesis 32:26

As day breaks the man asks to be released, but Jacob refuses to let go unless he is blessed. Jacob clings in desperate, persistent faith.

Cross-references · 17

• Hos 12:4Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;
• Ps 115:12–13The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
• 2 Cor 12:8–9For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
• Ps 67:1God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
• 1 Chr 4:10And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
• Song 3:4It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
• Luke 24:28–29And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
• Luke 18:1–7And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
• Rom 8:37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
• Exod 32:10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
• Isa 64:7And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
• Heb 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
• Isa 45:11Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
• Deut 9:14Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
• Ps 67:6–7Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
• Song 7:5Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

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