얍복(Jabbok) 은
Jordan 강 동쪽에 있는 지류 중 하나이다.
건기에는 말라있으나, 우기 때에는 물이 흘러 강을 만드는 지역이다. (와디라고 한다.)
야곱 이 가족들을 데리고 돌아올 때에,
Esau 와의 만남을 심히 두려워 하였다. 이 때 이 얍복 강을 사이에 두고 고민하다 하나님의 천사와 밤새 씨름하였다.
브니엘 이라고도 하였다.
22 He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok .
23 He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
24 Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
25 When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.
26 The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”
27 He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.
28 He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel ; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
29 Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” He blessed him there.
30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
이후 계속
Amorites 과
Ammonites 의 경계를 이루는 곳이 되었다. 주로
Arnon 에서
Jabbok 까지가 자연스러운 경계가 되었다.
Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok , and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.
To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon , the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok , which is the border of the children of Ammon;
Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok , even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.
2 Sihon king of the Amorites , who lived in Heshbon , and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon , and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok , the border of the children of Ammon;
3 and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah :
The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah , “Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt , from the Arnon even to the Jabbok , and to the Jordan . Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”
They possessed all the border of the Amorites , from the Arnon even to the Jabbok , and from the wilderness even to the Jordan .