PENIEL
“face of God.”
Camp east of the Jordan.
Jacob gave him this name after having wrestled with the angel, “for he said, I saw God face to face, and my soul was delivered” (Gen. 32:30-31).
In the time of the Judges there was a tower there, which Gideon destroyed, and a city whose inhabitants he put to the sword (Judges 8:8, 9, 17).
Jeroboam I fortified Peniel (1 Kings 12:25).