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A Pattern for Prayer
Commentators view Jacob's prayer as a powerful model. It combines key elements for believers today: appealing to God based on His covenant relationship ('God of my father Abraham'), reminding God of His specific promises ('you said... I will do you good'), honestly stating fears, and humbly acknowledging personal unworthiness and God's past faithfulness.
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Albert Barnes
On Genesis 32:1–32
18th Century
Theologian
Genesis 32:3: מחנים machănāyı̂m — Machanaim, “two camps.”
Genesis 32:22: יבק yaboq
Charles Ellicott
On Genesis 32:1–32
19th Century
Bishop
Charles Spurgeon
On Genesis 32:9–12
19th Century
Preacher
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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John Calvin
On Genesis 32:9
16th Century
Theologian
O God of my father Abraham. Having arranged his affairs as the necessity of the occasion suggested, he now turns to prayer. And this praye…
John Gill
On Genesis 32:9
17th Century
Pastor
And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac. In this distress he does not consult the teraphim…
Matthew Henry
On Genesis 32:9–23
17th Century
Minister
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…