Isaiah 48:1
Listen to this, descendants of Jacob, called by the name of Israel, and who come from the lineage of Judah. Listen, you people who swear by the name of the Lord, or who invoke the God of Israel, but not truly or sincerely.
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Genesis 35:10God told him, “Jacob will not be your name any longer. Instead of Jacob your name will be Israel.” So God called him Israel.
Leviticus 19:12Don't swear oaths in my name that are not true, otherwise you defame the character of your God. I am the Lord.
Deuteronomy 5:28The Lord heard what you told me, and he said to me, “I've heard what these people told you. All that they've said is good.
Deuteronomy 10:20You must respect the Lord your God and worship him. Hold onto him and make your promises in his name.
2 Kings 5:20when Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “Just look how my master has let this Naaman the Syrian off the hook by not accepting the gifts he brought! As the Lord lives, I'll run after him and get something from him.”
Psalms 50:16But to the wicked God says, “What's the point of mechanically repeating my laws or making empty promises about obeying the agreement?
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 →