Genesis 32:2 - Revised Standard Version CI

² and when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God's army!” So he called the name of 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. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 2:12

Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

2 Samuel 2:8

Now Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

1 Kings 2:8

And there is also with you Shime-i the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous 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, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

1 Kings 4:14

Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

2 Kings 6:17

Then Elisha prayed, and said, “O Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see.” So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

1 Chronicles 12:22

For from day to day men 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 that 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? But now I will return to fight against the prince of Persia; and when I am through with him, lo, 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

and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the slayer, Mahanaim with its pasture lands,

Joshua 5:14

And he said, “No; 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 said to him, “What does my lord bid his servant?”