Jacob saw Esau coming with his four hundred men, so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two concubines.

When Esau looked around and saw the women and the children, he asked, "Who are these people with you?" "These, sir, are the children whom God has been good enough to give me," Jacob answered.

and there beside the river I saw a ram that had two long horns, one of which was longer and newer than the other.

I looked up and saw someone who was wearing linen clothes and a belt of fine gold.

The LORD said to Joshua, "I am putting into your hands Jericho, with its king and all its brave soldiers.

he looked up and saw three men standing there. As soon as he saw them, he ran out to meet them. Bowing down with his face touching the ground,

but he stayed behind, alone. Then a man came and wrestled with him until just before daybreak.

The man said, "Let me go; daylight is coming." "I won't, unless you bless me," Jacob answered.

The man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob. You have struggled with God and with men, and you have won; so your name will be Israel."

Jacob said, "I have seen God face-to-face, and I am still alive"; so he named the place Peniel.

My angel will go ahead of you and take you into the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them.

Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, "Please, LORD, let the man of God that you sent come back to us and tell us what we must do with the boy when he is born."

God did what Manoah asked, and his angel came back to the woman while she was sitting in the field. Her husband Manoah was not with her,

Manoah got up and followed his wife. He went to the man and asked, "Are you the man who talked to my wife?" "Yes," he answered.

Manoah said to his wife, "We are sure to die, because we have seen God!"

I looked up and saw someone who was wearing linen clothes and a belt of fine gold.

Their ancestor Jacob struggled with his twin brother Esau while the two of them were still in their mother's womb; when Jacob grew up, he fought against God---

This was the LORD God Almighty---the LORD is the name by which he is to be worshiped.

I saw someone riding a red horse. He had stopped among some myrtle trees in a valley, and behind him were other horses---red, dappled, and white.

They still had their eyes fixed on the sky as he went away, when two men dressed in white suddenly stood beside them

and among them there was what looked like a human being, wearing a robe that reached to his feet, and a gold band around his chest.

When the donkey saw the angel standing there holding a sword, it left the road and turned into the fields. Balaam beat the donkey and brought it back onto the road.

David saw the angel standing in midair, holding his sword in his hand, ready to destroy Jerusalem. Then David and the leaders of the people---all of whom were wearing sackcloth---bowed low, with their faces touching the ground.

David prayed, "O God, I am the one who did wrong. I am the one who ordered the census. What have these poor people done? LORD, my God, punish me and my family, and spare your people."

The LORD told the angel to put his sword away, and the angel obeyed.

but David was not able to go there to worship God, because he was afraid of the sword of the LORD's angel.

David went to meet them and said, "If you are coming as friends to help me, you are welcome here. Join us! But if you intend to betray me to my enemies, even though I have not tried to hurt you, the God of our ancestors will know it and punish you."

God's spirit took control of one of them, Amasai, who later became the commander of "The Thirty," and he called out, "David son of Jesse, we are yours! Success to you and those who help you! God is on your side." David welcomed them and made them officers in his army.