and the muscle on his hip joint had been injured. That's why even today the people of Israel don't eat the hip muscle of any animal.
When the man saw that he could not win, he struck Jacob on the hip and threw it out of joint.
The sun was coming up as Jacob was leaving Peniel. He was limping because he had been struck on the hip,
Later that day Jacob met Esau coming with his four hundred men. So Jacob made his children walk with their mothers.
Jeroboam rebuilt Shechem in Ephraim and made it a stronger town, then he moved there. He also fortified the town of Penuel.
After leaving Succoth, Gideon went to Penuel and asked the leaders there for some food. But he got the same answer as he had got at Succoth.
This is the reason the priests and everyone else step over that part of the doorway when they enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod.