Genesis 32:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God’s camp!” So he called that place Mahanaim.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² When Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's army! So he named that place Mahanaim [two armies]. [Gen. 32:7, 10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Common English Bible

² When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp,” and he named that sacred place Mahanaim.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² When he had seen them, he said, "These are the Encampments of God." And he called the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, 'Encampments.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And when he saw them, he said: These are the camps of God. And he called the name of that place Mahanaim, that is, Camps.

Genesis 32:2 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:24

Then David came to Mahanaim, while Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 2:12

Abner son of Ner and the servants of Ishbaal son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

2 Samuel 2:8

But Abner son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbaal son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.

1 Kings 2:8

There is also with you Shimei son of Gera, a Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a terrible curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim, but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

1 Kings 4:14

Ahinadab son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

2 Kings 6:17

Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw; the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

1 Chronicles 12:22

Indeed, from day to day people kept coming to David to help him until there was a great army, like an army of God.

Psalm 103:21

Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers who do his will.

Psalm 148:2

Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his host!

Psalm 24:10

Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah

Psalm 34:7

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and delivers them.

Song of Solomon 6:13

Return, return, O Shulammite! Return, return, that we may look upon you. Why should you look upon the Shulammite, as upon a dance before two armies?

Daniel 10:20

Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? Now I must return to fight against the prince of Persia, and when I am through with him, the prince of Greece will come.

Luke 2:13

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying,

Joshua 21:38

Out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the slayer, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,

Joshua 5:14

He replied, “Neither, but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and he said to him, “What do you command your servant, my lord?”