Book of Hosea Chapter 12 Vs. 4

 The Lord's Indictment of Israel and Judah

Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us; Hos. 12:4

Yea, he had... The angel was willing to be conquered, or Jacob could not have gotten the victory.

over the angel... The Angel who wrestled with Jacob was God, as proved in Hos. 12:5, Even the Lord God of hosts. See Gen. 32:24-32. The angel, Called God (Hos. 12:3, and Hos. 12:5), is Jehovah, Lord of hosts. He was no created angel, but the uncreated Angel Christ, the Messiah, eternal God by nature and essence, angel by office and voluntary undertaking.

and prevailed... got the victory, went out of the field a conqueror, but not by such arms and methods as you use. You are conquered by man because of your sins; he conquered with God by faith and prayer.

he wept... Not the angel, as some though mistake, but your father Jacob. By this we know he prayed with tears, though the story says not so, with sense of his own unworthiness, with earnestness for the mercy he desired, and apprehensive of the majesty of him with whom he wrestled. But you, quite contrary, proud as if worthy, regardless of the best part of the blessing, and earnest only for the meaner part, seek it not of God, but idols.

and made supplication... It is Christ who is here intended. It was no mere creature, Jacob might not have prayed to such, but it was the Creator of angels and the Redeemer of man, the blessed Jesus, to whom every knee ought to bow (Phil. 2:10).

he found him... God found him (Jacob) in Bethel (Gen. 28:17-19). In the time of Hosea, Bethel was the seat of idolatry (1Kgs. 12:28-33). Either the angel found Jacob in Beth-el, as he did more than once, both before and after this time (Gen. 28:12). It is good to be in Beth-el, in the house of God; happy are those that dwell there, and are found there living and dying, doing the will and work of God there. Or rather Jacob found God or the angel in Beth-el; God is to be found in his own house, there he comes and blesses with his gracious presence. Here Christ the Angel of his presence is; here he meets with his people and manifests himself unto them.

there he spake... As being in the loins of our progenitor Jacob (compare Psm. 66:6). What God there spoke to Jacob appertains to us. God's promises to him belong to all his posterity who follows in the steps of his prayerful faith.

Jacob had wrestled all night with the angel of the Lord. Jacob was allowed to win the battle and caused the angel to bless him. God, through the angel, changed Jacob's name to Israel. All of this happened at Beth-el. Beth-el means house of God. Jacob's life was changed. He became the father of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Yea, he wrestled with the Angel and prevailed; he wept and besought of Him mercy. At Bethel he met with Him, and there he spake with Him, (or with us-that is, in the person of our father).

When he faced the prospect of death at Esau’s hand on his return to the land of Canaan he wrestled with God, refusing to let go till he received a blessing (Gen. 32:22-32). Later at Bethel, the site of his dream years before (cf. Gen. 28:10-22), God appeared to Jacob again. God changed his name to Israel, blessed him, and renewed His covenant promise (cf. Gen. 35:1-14).