Genesis 32:30

Jacob names the place Peniel ('face of God'), amazed that he saw God face to face and lived. He marvels at surviving so close an encounter with the holy God.

Cross-references · 22

• Num 12:8With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”
• Exod 24:10–11They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
• Isa 6:5Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
• Gen 16:13She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
• Deut 5:24and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives.
• John 1:18No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
• Exod 33:19–23He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”
• Eph 1:17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
• Exod 33:14He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
• 2 Tim 1:10but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
• Heb 11:27By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
• Deut 34:10Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,
• Judg 6:22–23Gideon saw that he was Yahweh’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! Because I have seen Yahweh’s angel face to face!”
• Gal 1:6I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;
• 2 Cor 4:6seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Col 1:15who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
• Gen 28:19He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
• Judg 8:17He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.
• Judg 13:21–22But Yahweh’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was Yahweh’s angel.
• 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
• Judg 8:8He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
• 1 Kgs 12:25Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.

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