Isaiah 48:1
Hear these words, ye house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of Judah, who swear by the name of the Lord God of Israel, making mention of it, but not with truth, nor with righteousness;
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Genesis 35:10And God said to him, Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel.
Leviticus 19:12And ye shall not swear unjustly by my name, and ye shall not profane the holy name of your God: I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 5:28And the Lord heard the voice of your words as ye spoke to me; and the Lord said to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, even all things that they have said to thee. They have well said all that they have spoken.
Deuteronomy 10:20Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt cleave to him, and shalt swear by his name.
2 Kings 5:20And Gehazi the servant of Elisha said, Behold, my Lord has spared this Syrian Naaman, so as not to take of his hand what he has brought: as the Lord lives, I will surely run after him, and take somewhat of him.
Psalms 50:16Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation: 1 And my tongue shall joyfully declare thy righteousness. 1
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 →