Hosea 12:3

New Century Version

Their ancestor Jacob held on to his brother’s heel while the two of them were being born. When he grew to be a man, he wrestled with God.

Cross References

Genesis 25:26

When the second baby was born, he was holding on to Esau’s heel, so that baby was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

2 Kings 17:18

Because he was very angry with the people of Israel, he removed them from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left.

2 Kings 17:20

so the Lord rejected all the people of Israel. He punished them and let others destroy them; he threw them out of his presence.

2 Kings 17:23

until the Lord removed the Israelites from his presence, just as he had said through all his servants the prophets. So the Israelites were taken out of their land to Assyria, and they have been there to this day.

Jeremiah 2:9

“So now I will again tell what I have against you,” says the Lord. “And I will tell what I have against your grandchildren.

Ezekiel 7:3

Now the end has come for you, and I will send my anger against you. I will judge you for the way you have lived, and I will make you pay for all your actions that I hate.

Ezekiel 7:8

Soon I will pour out my anger against you; I will carry out my anger against you. I will judge you for the way you have lived and will make you pay for everything you have done that I hate.

Hosea 4:1

People of Israel, listen to the Lord’s message. The Lord has this against you who live in the land: “The people are not true, not loyal to God, nor do those who live in the land even know him.

Hosea 4:9

The priests are as wrong as the people, and I will punish them both for what they have done. I will repay them for the wrong they have done.

Amos 2:4

This is what the Lord says: “For the many crimes of Judah, I will punish them. They rejected the teachings of the Lord and did not keep his commands; they followed the same gods as their ancestors had followed.

Micah 6:2

Mountains, listen to the Lord’s legal case. Foundations of the earth, listen. The Lord has a legal case against his people, and he will accuse Israel.”

Romans 9:11

But before the two boys were born, God told Rebekah, “The older will serve the younger.” This was before the boys had done anything good or bad. God said this so that the one chosen would be chosen because of God’s own plan. He was chosen because he was the one God wanted to call, not because of anything he did.