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Genesis 32:28
“ Your name will no longer be Jacob,” he said.“ It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”
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Matthew 1:2
Abraham fathered Isaac, Isaac fathered Jacob, Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers,
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Luke 3:34
son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, son of Terah, son of Nahor,
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Genesis 21:2-3
Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.Abraham named his son who was born to him— the one Sarah bore to him— Isaac.
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Acts 7:8
And so he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. After this, he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
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Romans 9:10-13
And not only that, but Rebekah conceived children through one man, our father Isaac.For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—not from works but from the one who calls— she was told, The older will serve the younger.As it is written: I have loved Jacob, but I have hated Esau.
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Malachi 1:2-4
“ I have loved you,” says the LORD. Yet you ask,“ How have you loved us?”“ Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” This is the LORD’s declaration.“ Even so, I loved Jacob,but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”Though Edom says,“ We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” the LORD of Armies says this:“ They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country and the people the LORD has cursed forever.
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1 Chronicles 1 28
Abraham’s sons: Isaac and Ishmael.
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Genesis 25:24-28
When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.The first one came out red-looking, covered with hair like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel with his hand. So he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman, but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.