Cross references

Hosea 12:3

In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel,

and in his vigor he wrestled with God.

Hosea 12:3 BSB

Hosea 12:3 has 4 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 25:26 (6 votes) and Genesis 32:24–28 (2 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 16 to James 5.

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Which verses does Hosea 12:3 point to?

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  1. After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

  2. So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled. …

  3. Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,

  4. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail. Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. …

Which verses point to Hosea 12:3?

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