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These changes could not have been arbitrary. Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, was the father of the twelve tribes of Israel. In the Bible, we are told that a divine being he wrestled with ...

Over 2,700 years ago, the Assyrians exiled the ten tribes of the Kingdom of Israel. The ten tribes would have returned at once to the Holy Land had not the Lord encircled them with the legendary ...

Israel derives its name from the name given to Jacob. 12 of his sons were the kernels of 12 tribes that later developed into the Jewish nation. The name Jew derives from Yehuda (Judah), one of the ...

Once, it refers to David (Acts 2:29), twice to the twelve sons of Jacob, from whom the tribes of Israel inherited their names (Acts 7:8,9), and once to Abraham (Hebrew 7:4). The reference to David ...

Jacob lies on his deathbed, surrounded by his sons – the 12 tribes of Israel, the foundational pillars of the nation. In his final words, Jacob gazes into the future of his descendants ...