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Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, `Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good.`
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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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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
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac. In this distress he does not consult the teraphim…
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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