Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)
IS'RAEL. Gen 35:10. The surname of Jacob, given to him by the angel at Peniel. Gen 32:28; Hos 12:3. " One of the finest hymns of Charles Wesley describes that mysterious wrestling with God in prayer, and begins, We find the name "Israel" soon after used for the whole race of Jacob's posterity, Ex 3:16; also for the kingdom of the ten tribes, as distinguished from Judah, 2 Kgs 14:12; and again, in a spiritual sense, for the whole body of true believers. Rom 9:6; Jud 11:26. Land of. See Canaan.
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