– Name given to Jacob and meaning “he who wrestles with God”:
Gen 32,28-29 : “Your name will no longer be Jacob”, he replied, “but Israel, because you have struggled with God”.
Gen 35:10 : “Your name”, he said to him, “is Jacob. You shall no longer be called that, but Israel.”
1 Kings 18:31 : He took twelve stones, according to the number of the twelve tribes that came out of the sons of Jacob.
2Kings 17:34 : They do not observe his laws […] nor the Law and the commandments that the Lord gave to the sons of Jacob.
– The Israelites are named after this patriarch:
Gen 32:32 : The sun was rising over the horizon when he crossed Phanuel. And he limped in one leg.
– Hence the expressions house and assembly of Israel:
Ex 12,3.6.19.47 : Say to all the assembly of Israel: on the tenth day of this month each of you take a lamb.
Exodus 16:31 : The Israelites named this food manna. It resembled coriander seed.
Num 32 :4 : Lands which the Lord smote before the children of Israel, are a land fit for the pasture of flocks.
Josh 21:45 : Not one of all the good words that the Lord had spoken to Israel failed. All were fulfilled.
– Later became the name of the northern kingdom:
1Kings 12,12-13 : The king spoke harshly to the people. Heedless of the advice of the elders.
1Sm 11,8 : Saul reviewed him in Bezek: there were three hundred thousand men from Israel and thirty thousand from Judah.
1Sm 17:52 : The men of Israel and Judah rose up, shouting war cries.
– During the time of their last king, Hosea, it was destroyed by the Assyrians (731-722 BC):
2 Kings 17:1-23 : Hosea, son of Ela, became king of Israel in Samaria. His reign lasted nine years.
– Paul speaks of the salvation of a remnant of Israel:
Romans 9:6, 27 : For not all who descend from Israel are true Israelites.
1Cor 10:18 : Consider Israel according to the flesh: do not those who eat the victims enter into communion with the altar?
Gal 6:16 : To all who follow this rule, peace and mercy, as well as to the Israel of God.
– As the prophets had prophesied:
Is 4:3 : What remains of Zion, the survivors of Jerusalem, will be called saints.
Is 10:20-21 : The remnant of Israel and the remnant of the house of Jacob will no longer lean on the one who hurt them.
Ez 11:19 : In affliction they will eat their bread and in terror they will drink their water, for the land will be despoiled.
Ez 36,24 : I will remove you from the midst of the nations, I will gather you from all places, and I will lead you to your soil.
– And beckons with a new covenant in which all will know the Lord:
Jr 31,31-32 : Days will come – declares the Lord – when I will establish a new covenant with the houses of Israel and Judah.
Ez 36,25-26 : I will pour out pure waters on you, which will purify you from […] all your abominations.
