Hosea 12:4 Cross References
Hosea 12:4
4: Yes, he wrestled with the angel and won. He wept and pleaded for a blessing from him. There at Bethel he met God face to face, and God spoke to him--
Genesis 35:15
- Jacob called the place Bethel--"house of God"--because God had spoken to him there.
Exodus 3:2
- Suddenly, the angel of the LORD appeared to him as a blazing fire in a bush. Moses was amazed because the bush was engulfed in flames, but it didn't burn up.
- "Amazing!" Moses said to himself. "Why isn't that bush burning up? I must go over to see this."
- When the LORD saw that he had caught Moses' attention, God called to him from the bush, "Moses! Moses!Here I am!" Moses replied.
- "Do not come any closer," God told him. "Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground."
Genesis 35:9
- God appeared to Jacob once again when he arrived at Bethel after traveling from Paddan-aram. God blessed him
- and said, "Your name is no longer Jacob; you will now be called Israel."
Psalms 66:6
- He made a dry path through the Red Sea, and his people went across on foot. Come, let us rejoice in who he is.
Hebrews 5:7
- While Jesus was here on earth, he offered prayers and pleadings, with a loud cry and tears, to the one who could deliver him out of death. And God heard his prayers because of his reverence for God.
Acts 7:30
- "Forty years later, in the desert near Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to Moses in the flame of a burning bush.
- Moses saw it and wondered what it was. As he went to see, the voice of the Lord called out to him,
- 'I am the God of your ancestors--the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses shook with terror and dared not look.
- "And the Lord said to him, 'Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground.
- You can be sure that I have seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries. So I have come to rescue them. Now go, for I will send you to Egypt.'
1 Thessalonians 4:17
- Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with him forever.
Genesis 48:15
- Then he blessed Joseph and said, "May God, the God before whom my grandfather Abraham and my father, Isaac, walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life,
Isaiah 63:9
- In all their suffering he also suffered, and he personally rescued them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them. He lifted them up and carried them through all the years.
Genesis 32:29
- "What is your name?" Jacob asked him. "Why do you ask?" the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.
Hebrews 6:13
- For example, there was God's promise to Abraham. Since there was no one greater to swear by, God took an oath in his own name, saying:
- "I will certainly bless you richly, and I will multiply your descendants into countless millions."
- Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.
- When people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding.
- God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind.
Malachi 3:1
- "Look! I am sending my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Then the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his Temple. The messenger of the covenant, whom you look for so eagerly, is surely coming," says the LORD Almighty.
Genesis 28:11
- At sundown he arrived at a good place to set up camp and stopped there for the night. Jacob found a stone for a pillow and lay down to sleep.
- As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from earth to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down on it.
- At the top of the stairway stood the LORD, and he said, "I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I will give it to you and your descendants.
- Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will cover the land from east to west and from north to south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.
- What's more, I will be with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. I will someday bring you safely back to this land. I will be with you constantly until I have finished giving you everything I have promised."
Genesis 32:9
- Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my grandfather Abraham and my father, Isaac--O LORD, you told me to return to my land and to my relatives, and you promised to treat me kindly.
- I am not worthy of all the faithfulness and unfailing love you have shown to me, your servant. When I left home, I owned nothing except a walking stick, and now my household fills two camps!
- O LORD, please rescue me from my brother, Esau. I am afraid that he is coming to kill me, along with my wives and children.
- But you promised to treat me kindly and to multiply my descendants until they become as numerous as the sands along the seashore--too many to count."