“Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth–el, and there he spake with us;”
The statement that Jacob strove with the angel (the messenger of God) in Peniel and wept and made supplication suggests the struggle at Peniel (Genesis 32:24-30) as a prototype of Israel's wrestling with God. The weeping and supplication indicate the earnestness that should characterize the struggle, suggesting that if Israel would weep and supplicate as Jacob did, they might prevail. This verse uses Jacob's wrestling as a model for the repentance Israel needs to undertake.
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