Israel
- Father: Isaac
- Mother:
- Sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin
- Daughters: Dinah
He was in the line of Christ through Joseph. (Matthew 1:2)
I want to move you, if God the Holy Ghost shall help me, so that you will say within yourselves, like Queen Esther, “I will go in unto the King, and if I perish, I perish;” and may you add to that the vow of Jacob, “I will not let thee go, except thou bless me!”
(Spurgeon's Sermons on Prayer by Charles H. Spurgeon (2007). Page 18., https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/the-ravens-cry/#flipbook/)
Literary Form
The story of Jacob (Genesis 25-35) resembles a hero story.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. The Bible as Literature by Leland Ryken, Page 131-132)