Charles Spurgeon Commentary Genesis 32:2

"And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God`s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim." — Genesis 32:2 (ASV)

And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

He gave it a name to commemorate God's having sent the angels, and called it "two camps" or "two hosts."

And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

The marginal reading is "Two hosts, or, camps." The angels of the Lord were encamping around the man who feared him, though there had been much in his character and conduct that the Lord could not approve.