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Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.
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Plead God's Promises
Multiple commentators, especially Charles Spurgeon, highlight that the most powerful part of Jacob's prayer is when he reminds God of His own promise: "You said, 'I will surely do you good.'" This serves as a powerful model for believers, showing that grounding our requests in God's revealed promises is a mighty and effective way to pray.
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Genesis
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Genesis 32:3: מחנים machănāyı̂m — Machanaim, “two camps.”
Genesis 32:22: יבק yaboq
19th Century
Anglican
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
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Baptist
And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kind…
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16th Century
Protestant
Deliver me. After he has declared himself to be bound by so many of God’s benefits that he cannot boast of his own merits, and so raised h…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Deliver me, I pray you, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau For though…
Times of fear should be times of prayer: whatever causes fear, should drive us to our knees, to our God. Jacob had lately seen his guards of angels…
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