Genesis 32:28

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans and have prevailed.”

Cross References

Genesis 17:15

God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

Genesis 17:5

No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations.

Genesis 25:31

Jacob said, “First sell me your birthright.”

Genesis 31:24

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, “Take heed that you say not a word to Jacob, either good or bad.”

Genesis 32:24

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Genesis 32:27

So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”

Genesis 33:20

There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Genesis 33:4

But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

Genesis 35:10

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

2 Samuel 12:25

and sent a message by the prophet Nathan, so he named him Jedidiah because of the Lord.

1 Kings 18:31

Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, “Israel shall be your name”;

2 Kings 17:34

To this day they continue to practice their former customs. They do not worship the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes or the ordinances or the law or the commandment that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

1 Chronicles 1:34

Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

Proverbs 16:7

When the ways of people please the Lord, he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.

Isaiah 43:1

But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are mine.

Isaiah 65:15

You shall leave your name to my chosen to use as a curse, and the Lord God will put you to death, but to his servants he will give a different name.

Numbers 13:16

These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses changed the name of Hoshea son of Nun to Joshua.

John 1:42

He brought Simon to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You are to be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).

Revelation 2:17

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give a white stone, and on the white stone is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.

1 Samuel 26:25

Then Saul said to David, “Blessed be you, my son David! You will do many things and will succeed in them.” So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.