Ezekiel 36:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.

Ezekiel 36:21 —

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Isaiah 48:9
For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
Psalms 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Ezekiel 20:9
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 32:26-27
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: …
Ezekiel 20:22
Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God God Guidance Israel, Prophecies Concerning Lord Majesty Theology

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-24)

When God promised the poor captives a glorious return, in due time, to their own land, it was a great discouragement to their hopes that they were unworthy, utterly unworthy, of such a favour; therefore, to remove that discouragement, God here shows them that he would do it for them purely for his own name’s sake, that he might be glorified in them and by them, that he might manifest and magnify h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. I had pity for mine holy name--that is, I felt pity for it; God’s own name, so dishonored, was the primary object of His pitying concern; then His people, secondarily, through His concern for it [Fairbairn].