Jacob

Son of Isaac, and the twin brother of Esau

• Genesis 25:24–26

  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

• Joshua 24:4

  And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

• 1 Chronicles 1:34

  And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.

• Acts 7:8

  And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

Ancestor of Jesus

• Matthew 1:2

  Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;

Given in answer to prayer

• Genesis 25:21

  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Obtains Esau's birthright for just one bowl of stew

• Genesis 25:29–34

  And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. …

• Hebrews 12:16

  Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

Fradulently obtains his father's blessing

• Genesis 27:1–29

  And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison; …

• Hebrews 11:20

  By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

Esau seeks to kill, escapes to Padan-aram

• Genesis 27:41–46

  And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran; …

• Genesis 28:1–5

  And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; …

• Hosea 12:12

  And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

His vision of the ladder

• Genesis 28:10–22

  And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. …

God confirms the covenant of Abraham to

• Genesis 28:13–22

  And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. …

• Genesis 35:9–15

  And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; …

• 1 Chronicles 16:13–18

  O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones. He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth. Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations; …

Sojourns in Haran with his uncle, Laban

• Genesis 29:30

  And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

• Hosea 12:12

  And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Serves fourteen years for Leah and Rachel

• Genesis 29:15–30

  And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be? And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured. …

• Hosea 12:12

  And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Sharp practice of, with the flocks and herds of Laban

• Genesis 30:32–43

  I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire. So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me. And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. …

Dissatisfied with Laban's treatment and returns to the land of Canaan

Genesis 31

Meets angels of God on the journey, and calls the place "Mahanaim,"

• Genesis 32:1

  And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

• Genesis 32:2

  And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Dreads to meet Esau; sends him presents; wrestles with an angel

Genesis 32

Name of, changed to "Israel,"

• Genesis 32:28

  And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

• Genesis 35:10

  And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

Reconciliation of, with Esau

• Genesis 33:4

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

Journeys to Succoth

• Genesis 33:17

  And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

Journeys to Shalem, where he purchase a parcel of ground from Hamor and erects an altar

• Genesis 33:18–20

  And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money. And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.

His daughter, Dinah, is raped

Genesis 34

Returns to Beth-el, where he builds an altar, and erects and dedicates a pillar

• Genesis 35:1–7

  And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. …

Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dies, and is buried at Beth-el

• Genesis 35:8

  But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.

Journeys to Ephrath; Benjamin is born to; Rachel dies; and is "buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem,"

• Genesis 35:16–19

  And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. …

• Genesis 48:7

  And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.

Erects a monument at Rachel's grave

• Genesis 35:20

  And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

The incest of his son, Reuben, with his concubine, Bilhah

• Genesis 35:22

  And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

List of the names of his twelve sons

• Genesis 35:23–26

  The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: …

Returns to Arbah, the city of his father

• Genesis 35:27

  And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

Lives in the land of Canaan

• Genesis 37:1

  And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

His partiality for his son, Joseph, and the consequent jealousy of his other sons

• Genesis 37:3

  Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

• Genesis 37:4

  And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

Joseph's prophetic dream concerning

• Genesis 37:9–11

  And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth? And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

His grief over the loss of Joseph

• Genesis 37:34

  And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

• Genesis 37:35

  And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

Sends to Egypt to buy corn (grain)

• Genesis 42:1

  Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

• Genesis 42:2

  And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

• Genesis 43:1–14

  And the famine was sore in the land. And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. …

His grief over the detention of Simeon and the demand for Benjamin to be taken into Egypt

• Genesis 42:36

  And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

His love for Benjamin

• Genesis 43:14

  And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

• Genesis 44:29

  And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Hears that Joseph is still alive

• Genesis 45:26–28

  And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not. And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

Moves to Egypt

• Genesis 46:1–7

  And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: …

• 1 Samuel 12:8

  When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

• Psalms 105:23

  Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

• Acts 7:14

  Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

• Acts 7:15

  So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

The list of his children and grandchildren who went down into Egypt

• Genesis 46:8–27

  And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. …

Meets Joseph

• Genesis 46:28–34

  And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen. And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive. …

Pharaoh receives him, and is blessed by Jacob

• Genesis 47:1–10

  Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. …

The land of Goshen assigned to

• Genesis 47:11

  And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

• Genesis 47:12

  And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

• Genesis 47:27

  And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

Lives in Egypt for seventeen years

• Genesis 47:28

  And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

Exacts a promise from Joseph to bury him with his forefathers

• Genesis 47:29–31

  And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.

His benediction upon Joseph and his two sons

• Genesis 48:15–22

  And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. …

Gives the land of the Amorites to Joseph

• Genesis 48:22

  Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

• John 4:5

  Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

His final prophetic benedictions upon his sons

Charges his sons to bury him in the field of Machpelah

• Genesis 49:29

  And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

• Genesis 49:30

  In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

Death of

• Genesis 49:33

  And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

Body of, embalmed

• Genesis 50:2

  And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

40 Days mourning for

• Genesis 50:3

  And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.

Burial of

• Genesis 50:4–13

  And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. …

Descendants of

• Genesis 29:31–35

  And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren. And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon. …

• Genesis 30:1–24

  And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. …

• Genesis 35:18

  And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

• Genesis 35:22–26

  And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: …

• Genesis 46:8–27

  And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn. And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. …

• Exodus 1:1–5

  Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, …

• 1 Chronicles 2:9

  The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.

Prophecies concerning himself and his descendants

• Genesis 25:23

  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

• Genesis 27:28

  Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

• Genesis 27:29

  Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

• Genesis 28:10–15

  And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. …

• Genesis 31:3

  And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

• Genesis 35:9–13

  And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; …

• Genesis 46:3

  And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:

• Deuteronomy 1:8

  Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

• Psalms 105:10

  And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

• Psalms 105:11

  Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:

His wealth

• Genesis 36:6

  And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.

• Genesis 36:7

  For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

The well of

• John 4:5–30

  Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. …