Bible lesson
Chapter 13: Peniel and Reconciliation
Study notes, questions and the Bible passages that Kingdoms of Scripture Chapter 13 covers, as the game’s chapter map shows them. Read the passages first in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible, the text the game quotes: the game’s choices, maps and staging are reconstructions, not scripture. This page is not a church lesson and adds no doctrine.
Study notes
Jacob’s messengers report that Esau is coming to meet him with four hundred men, and later a man wrestles Jacob until dawn and gives him the new name Israel. When the brothers meet, Esau runs to Jacob, embraces and kisses him, and the two of them weep.
From Genesis 32:6 (KoS), Genesis 32:24 (KoS), Genesis 32:28 (KoS), Genesis 33:4 (KoS).
These notes and questions are original study helps written for this site, not scripture. The verses shown with each question are quoted from the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible.
- Chapter
- 13
- Title
- Peniel and Reconciliation
- Bible passages
- Genesis 32:1–33:20
- Read in the Kingdoms of Scripture Bible
- The chapter opens with
Jacob named the place Peniel, “For I have seen God face to face, and my life has been spared.”
Note · Translation Peniel means “face of God.”
Notice and discuss
Read each passage, then think about the question on your own or talk it over with others. No answers are collected.
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What does Jacob ask to be saved from, and what does he say he is afraid will happen?
Save me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, that he will come and strike me down, mothers with children.
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When the one wrestling Jacob asks to be let go at dawn, what does Jacob say must happen first?
He said, “Let me go, for dawn has come up.” He said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
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What does Jacob ask Esau to take, and what does he say seeing Esau’s face is like?
Jacob said, “No, please, if I have found favor in your eyes, then take my gift from my hand. For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me.
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Kingdoms of Scripture Bible (KoS). CC BY 4.0. Source: bible.kingdomsofscripture.com. Quotations are whole published verses, matched to the game’s chapter references.