The Lord told Jacob it was time to go back to the land God had given Abraham and Isaac. But there was one problem . . . In the verses we look at this morning we see how Jacob sought to be reconciled to his brother. He could have ignored the situation. He could have avoided Esau for the rest of his life.
Some people do that.
I suspect this would have been Jacob's preference. But he couldn't do that. I think the answer is in the first two verses. Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. So he named that place Mahanaim.