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Penuel - Walking in Their Sandals - location profile (434 words) |
 | Penuel was situated on a major east-west route that passed through the Wadi Jabbok connecting the Transjordanian Highway with the Jordan Valley and routes leading into the hill country of Samaria. |
| Penuel was strategically located to protect the Northern Kingdom from invasion from the east. |
| Penuel may have become an alternate capital as a result of the threat of Rehoboam, the king of Judah, against Jeroboam’s rule from Shechem (1 Kgs 12:25). |
| Daily Bible Study - Penuel (963 words) |
| Penuel, or Peniel, from the Hebrew (pronounced) pen-ee-ale, meaning the face of God, or to face God, was a place a few miles east of The Jordan River, near a ford of the Jabbok River. |
| By the time of The Judges, the town that then existed at Penuel was destroyed by Gideon after they, along with another town, Succoth, refused to give food to Gideon's troops while they were in a hot pursuit battle with a large force of Midianites: |
| And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. |
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