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Penuel

City in the Bible

Other names: Peniel

Location: 32.18° N, 35.70° E (approximate; the location is disputed or uncertain)

Mentioned in 5 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.

Where Penuel is mentioned

  • 1 Kings 12:25

    Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.

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  • Genesis 32:31

    The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

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  • Judges 8:8–9

    8 From there he went up to Penuel and asked the same from them, but the men of Penuel gave the same response as the men of Succoth.

    9 So Gideon told the men of Penuel, “When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower!”

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  • Judges 8:17

    He also pulled down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

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