At sunrise, as he left Penuel, Jacob limped along because of his hip.
Jacob was left there alone. Then a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.
Jacob named the place Peniel, “because I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.”
Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men. So he divided his children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants,
Jeroboam built up Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. Then he left it and built up Penuel. Jeroboam’s Cultic Innovations.
He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request of them, but the people of Penuel answered him as had the people of Succoth.
For this reason, neither the priests of Dagon nor any others who enter the temple of Dagon tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this very day. The Ark Is Carried About.