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Hosea Chapter 12 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Hosea 12:4

yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he spake with us,
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BBE Hosea 12:4

In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;
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DARBY Hosea 12:4

Yea, he wrestled with the Angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
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KJV Hosea 12:4

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;
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WBT Hosea 12:4


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WEB Hosea 12:4

Indeed, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; He wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
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YLT Hosea 12:4

Yea, he is a prince unto the Messenger, And he overcometh `by' weeping, And he maketh supplication to Him, At Bethel He doth find him, And there He doth speak with us,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him. As Jacob's position at birth symbolized the pre-eminence which God's electing love had in store for him, and as in his manhood's prime he put forth such earnestness and energy to obtain the blessing, so Israel, by the example of their forefather, are encouraged to like strenuous exertion with like certainty of success. The example is more fully described and dwelt on in this verse for the purpose of more powerfully stimulating the Israelites of the prophet's day to imitate it. From this verse we learn the following facts: (1) the nature of the conflict as of a spiritual kind; (2) the visible embodiment of the invisible deity, so that the angel is not an entire identification with God in the preceding verse, but the organ of Divine manifestation; and (3) the weapons used, or the means employed, namely, weeping and supplication, in a word, the instrumentality of prayer; and . . .

Ellicott's Commentary