JABOK, or Jabbok, a Brook on the other side of Jordan, the spring whereof is in the Mountains of Gilead. It falls into Jordan pretty near the sea of Tiberias, to the south of this sea. Near this brook the Gen. xxxii. 1, 2. … 23.Patriarch Jacob met the Angels1, who wrestled with him. The Jabbok separated the land of the Ammonites from the Gaulanitis, and the territories of Og King of Bashan.
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Translators’ note. Our Author here expresses it, as if this Patriarch wrestled with several Angels, contrary to the letter of the Text, Gen. xxxii. 24, &c. It is said indeed in the first verse of this Chapter, That the Angels of God met him. But the dispute is mentioned as passing between Jacob and a single person. ↩