And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the
night
He appeared to Jacob as he lay upon his bed in the night season,
and with an articulate voice spoke to him as follows: and
said, Jacob, Jacob:
not "Israel", the more honourable name he had given him, but
Jacob, putting him in mind of his former low estate; and doubling
this name, either out of love and affection to him, as Jarchi
intimates; or rather in order to awake him, at least to stir up
his attention to what he was about to say to him: and he
said, here [am] I;
signifying his readiness to hearken to him in what he should say
to him, and to obey him in whatsoever he should command him.
Genesis 46:2
