TSK · Genesis 48:16

The LORD’s angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the wilderness– the spring that is along the road to Shur.

and the LORD stood at its top. He said,“I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.

“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him,“but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring whose branches climb over the wall.

The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. He looked– and the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!

And all those numbered totaled 603,550.

These were the families of Manasseh; those numbered of them were 52,700.

May the firstborn of his bull bring him honor, and may his horns be those of a wild ox; with them may he gore all peoples, all the far reaches of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

Confrontation and Repentance at Bokim The LORD’s angel went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said,“I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. I said,‘I will never break my covenant with you,

The LORD’s angel did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the LORD’s angel.

The king swore an oath:“As certainly as the LORD lives(he who has rescued me from every danger),

I will boast in the LORD; let the oppressed hear and rejoice!

Taste and see that the LORD is good! How blessed is the one who takes shelter in him!

The LORD will protect you from all harm; he will protect your life.

Through all that they suffered, he suffered too. The messenger sent from his very presence delivered them. In his love and mercy he protected them; he lifted them up and carried them throughout ancient times.

He struggled with an angel and prevailed; he wept and begged for his favor. He found God at Bethel, and there he spoke with him!

“I am about to send my messenger, who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,’ says the Lord, who makes these things

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed and will bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever! Amen.

By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff.