Ezekiel 36:21
But I spared them for the sake of my holy name, which the house of Israel profaned among the nations, among whom they went.
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Deuteronomy 32:26I said, I will scatter them, 1 And I will cause their memorial to cease from among men. 1
Isaiah 37:35I will protect this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
Ezekiel 20:9But I wrought so that my name should not be at all profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in the midst of whom they are, among whom I was made known to them in their sight, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:22But I wrought so that my name might not be at all profaned before the Gentiles; and I brought them out in their sight.
Ezekiel 39:25Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Now will I turn back captivity in Jacob, and will have mercy on the house of Israel, and will be jealous for the sake of my holy name.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 36:17-25
God's Compassion for Israel. ( b. c. 587.) 16 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. 18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it: 19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according… Read the whole commentary →