Genesis 35:10

New International Version

God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel.

Cross References

Genesis 17:15

God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.

Genesis 17:5

No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

Genesis 32:29

Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there.

1 Kings 18:31

Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel.”

2 Kings 17:34

To this day they persist in their former practices. They neither worship the Lord nor adhere to the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands that the Lord gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

Hosea 12:4

He struggled with the angel and overcame him; he wept and begged for his favor. He found him at Bethel and talked with him there—