Hosea 12:4 · KJV
“Yea, 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;”
— Hosea 12:4
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: {had...: Heb. was a prince, or, behaved himself princely}
Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD {is} his memorial.
Hosea 12 — Context
The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. {punish: Heb. visit upon}
3He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: {had...: Heb. was a prince, or, behaved himself princely}
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;
5Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD {is} his memorial.
6Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
Cross References
Genesis 35:15
And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
Malachi 3:1
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we which are alive {and} remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Hebrews 6:13-18
For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
Hebrews 5:7
Who 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; {in that...: or, for his piety}
Psalms 66:6
He turned the sea into dry {land}: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
Genesis 35:9-10
And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.