Jabbok is one of the tributaries located east of the Jordan River. It is dry during the dry season, but water flows during the rainy season, forming a river. (It is called a wadi.) When Jacob returned with his family, he greatly feared meeting Esau. At this time, he wrestled with an angel of God all night while contemplating across the Jabbok River. It was also called Peniel.
Genesis 32:22He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.Genesis 32:23Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.Genesis 32:24When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.Genesis 32:25The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”Genesis 32:26He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.Genesis 32:27He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”Genesis 32:28Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” He said, “Why is it that you ask what my name is?” He blessed him there.Genesis 32:29Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”Genesis 32:30The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
이후 계속 아모리 족속과 암몬 족속의 경계를 이루는 곳이 되었다. 주로 아르논에서 얍복까지가 자연스러운 경계가 되었다.
Deuteronomy 2:37Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.
Deuteronomy 3:16the Arabah) also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
Numbers 21:24Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
Joshua 12:2and the Arabah) to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:Joshua 12:3and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
Judges 11:13Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;
Judges 11:22So now Yahweh, the God of Israel), has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?