Genesis 32:24
22 During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” “I will not let you go,” Jacob replied, “unless you bless me.”
Hosea 12:3
1 Ephraim continually feeds on the wind; he chases the east wind all day; he multiplies lies and violence. They make treaties with Assyria and send olive oil as tribute to Egypt. 2 The Lord also has a covenant lawsuit against Judah; he will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds. 3 In the womb he attacked his brother; in his manly vigor he struggled with God. 4 He struggled with an angel and prevailed; he wept and begged for his favor. He found God at Bethel, and there he spoke with him! 5 As for the Lord God Almighty, the Lord is the name by which he is remembered!
Notes and References
"... One of the wrestlers who is featured from beginning to end is Jacob. He is presented relatively straightforwardly throughout the story. As an identifiable figure, he is clearly Jacob when the wrestling begins (Genesis 32:24) and Jacob—albeit with a new name, Israel - when the wrestling is over (verses 30-31). This is in sharp contrast to Jacob’s adversary. He is presented as a man at the beginning of their wrestling (verse 24) but is later identified by Jacob as God (verse 30). There is nothing to indicate that Jacob actually wrestled two figures: first a man, and then God. So, Jacob’s adversary, the second wrestler, as he is presented in the story, is somehow a man as well as God. This could be in the strict sense of his having a shared identity or more loosely as a man somehow representing God, perhaps in angelic form. Over the centuries, the identity of Jacob’s adversary has understandably puzzled readers of the story. Already within the Bible, there appears to be an attempt to clarify the identity of this man-God. In the book of Hosea (12:3-4), we have some details of Jacob’s life, which include his wrestling encounter ..."
Meyer, Mike Jacob Wrestles the man-God: An Embodied Reading of Genesis 32:24-32 (p. 12) University of Auckland, 2021