5096 Jacob, the patriarch
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God's covenant promises to Abraham were inherited by Jacob, through his father Isaac, and so it was through his line of descent that the promised Messiah was to come.

Jacob was one of the three patriarchs

Exodus 3:6 See also Numbers 32:11; Deuteronomy 1:8; Matthew 8:11; Matthew 22:32; Acts 3:13

Jacob received the Abrahamic promises

God's promise to Abraham

Genesis 12:1-3

Jacob chosen in preference to Esau

Romans 9:11-13 See also Genesis 25:23; Malachi 1:2

The promises given to Jacob and his descendants

Genesis 28:3-4 See also Genesis 28:13-15; Genesis 35:11-12; Leviticus 26:42; 1 Chronicles 16:17 pp Psalm 105:10; Hebrews 11:9

Jacob's descendants

He fathered the twelve tribes

Exodus 1:1-5 See also 1 Kings 18:31; 1 Chronicles 2:1-2

He was the father of the nation

Psalm 22:23 See also Psalm 77:15; Isaiah 45:19

Jacob as a symbol for the nation

Jacob and Israel were linked together as equivalent terms for the nation

Psalm 14:7 See also Numbers 23:7; Numbers 24:5; 1 Chronicles 16:13; Psalm 78:5; Psalm 114:1; Psalm 135:4; Isaiah 9:8; Isaiah 43:28

The nation is described as the house of Jacob

Exodus 19:3 See also Isaiah 2:6; Isaiah 8:17; Jeremiah 5:20; Amos 9:8; Luke 1:33

Other descriptions of the nation

Deuteronomy 33:4; Psalm 87:2; Isaiah 27:9; Isaiah 59:20; Isaiah 41:21; Jeremiah 30:18; Lamentations 2:2; Malachi 2:12; Romans 11:26

National and patriarchal references merged

Psalm 46:7 See also Psalm 20:1; Psalm 24:6; Psalm 75:9; Psalm 94:7; Psalm 99:4; Jeremiah 10:16

See also

1245  God of the fathers
1348  covenant with Abraham
5466  promises
7135  Israel, people of God
7248  patriarchs
7257  promised land



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