Rose up that night— That is, towards the close of the night, before break of day; when setting forward his family, who crossed the brook called Jabbok, which rises out of the adjacent mountains of Gilead, he was left alone, choosing to be so, in order, no doubt, to address himself more fervently to God, and to strive earnestly with him for his blessing, which the subsequent wrestling was designed to figure, as the prophet Hosea, ch. Genesis 12:4. plainly informs us. That it was a real event, and no dream or visionary representation, appears from the whole tenor of the history, as well as from that passage in Hosea to which we have referred. It is probable, that the Divine Person was at first unknown to Jacob when he entered into contest with him, but was discovered to him in the event, and the whole affair, consequently, unravelled in its mystical and spiritual meaning. See the next note.
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Genesis 32:22
22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.