Jacob Sends Angels Like a King's Armies to Meet Esau

"And Jacob sent messengers" (Genesis 32:4). What is written above? "And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's camp" (Genesis 32:3). How many are God's camp? Two thousand myriads of ministering angels, as it is said, "The chariots of God are two myriads, thousands upon thousands" (Psalms 68:18). And those angels all appeared like the armies of a king: some of them clothed in iron, and some of them riding horses, and some of them having horns that they blew. Esau said to them, "Whose are you?" They said to him, "Jacob's," as it is said, "Whose is all this camp that I met?" (Genesis 33:8). Another interpretation: "And Jacob sent messengers." And why did he send messengers to him? Rather, thus said Jacob: "Let me send messengers to him; if he repents, well and good." He said to them, "Say to him: Do not say that just as I went out from my father's house I have come to you, for I went out from my father's house with my staff," as it is said, "for with my staff [I passed over this Jordan]" (Genesis 32:10), "but now I am become two camps."