Father of the twelve tribes · Patriarchs, c. 1850 BC
Jacob in the Bible
Also called Israel
Jacob takes his brother's blessing by deception, meets God on a stairway at Bethel, works fourteen years for Rachel, and wrestles through the night at the Jabbok until he is renamed Israel. His twelve sons become the tribes that carry the nation's name.
Verses mentioning Jacob
386 occurrences across 346 verses in the King James Version.
- Psalms 105:6
O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
Read in context - Psalms 105:10
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
Read in context - Psalms 105:23
Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Read in context - Psalms 114:1
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Read in context - Psalms 114:7
Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
Read in context - Psalms 132:2
How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
Read in context - Psalms 132:5
Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. an habitation: Heb. habitations
Read in context - Psalms 135:4
For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.
Read in context - Psalms 146:5
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
Read in context - Psalms 147:19
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. his word: Heb. his words
Read in context - Isaiah 2:3
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Read in context - Isaiah 2:5
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Read in context - Isaiah 2:6
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. from: or, more than the please: or, abound with the
Read in context - Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Read in context - Isaiah 9:8
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
Read in context - Isaiah 10:20
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Read in context - Isaiah 10:21
The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
Read in context - Isaiah 14:1
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
Read in context - Isaiah 17:4
And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
Read in context - Isaiah 27:6
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
Read in context - Isaiah 27:9
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. images: or, sun images
Read in context - Isaiah 29:22
Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
Read in context - Isaiah 29:23
But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
Read in context - Isaiah 40:27
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
Read in context - Isaiah 41:8
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
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