7So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
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And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)This prophecy begins as that before (Ezek. 38:3-4; I am against thee, and I will turn thee back ); for there is need of line upon line, both for the conviction of Israel’s enemies and the comfort of Israel’s friends. Here, as there, it is foretold that God will bring this enemy from the north parts , as formerly the Chaldeans were fetched from the north, Jer. 1:14 ( Omne malum ab aquilone—Every ev…
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