Isaiah 48:1
Hear this, house of Jacob, 1 who are called by the name Israel, and have come from the sperm of Judah; 1 you who swear by the name of Yahweh and invoke the God of Israel, 1 but not sincerely nor in a righteous manner. 1
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Genesis 35:10God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob. Your name will be Israel.” So God called his name Israel.
Leviticus 19:12Do not swear by my name falsely and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.
Deuteronomy 5:28Yahweh heard your words when you spoke to me. He said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, what they said to you. What they said was good.
Deuteronomy 10:20You will fear Yahweh your God; him will you worship. To him you must cling, and by his name will you swear.
2 Kings 5:20He had traveled only a short distance, when Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God said to himself, “Look, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean by not receiving from his hands gifts that he brought. As Yahweh lives, I will run after him and receive something from him.”
Psalms 50:16But to the wicked God says, 1 “What have you to do with declaring my statutes, 1 that you have taken my covenant in your mouth, 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 →