Isaiah 48:1
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
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Genesis 35:10And God said to him, Thy name is Jacob. Thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called his name Israel.
Leviticus 19:12And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of thy God. I am LORD.
Deuteronomy 5:28And LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spoke to me. And LORD said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to thee. They have well said all that they have spoken.
Deuteronomy 10:20Thou shall fear LORD thy God. Him thou shall serve, and to him thou shall cling, and by his name thou shall swear.
2 Kings 5:20But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As LORD lives, I will run after him, and take something from him.
Psalms 50:16But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth,
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:1
God, having in the foregoing chapter reckoned with the Babylonians, and shown them their sins and the desolation that was coming upon them for their sins, to show that he hates sin wherever he finds it and will not connive at it in his own people, comes, in this chapter, to show the house of Jacob their sins, but, withal, the mercy God had in store for them notwithstanding; and he therefore sets their sins in order before them, that by their repentance and reformation they might be prepared for that mercy. I. He… Read the whole commentary →