12I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. …
So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)God here challenges the worshippers of idols to produce such proofs of the divinity of their false gods as even this very instance (to go no further) of the redemption of the Jews out of Babylon furnished the people of Israel with, to prove that their God is the true and living God, and he only. I. The patrons of idolatry are here called to appear, and say what they have to say in defence of their…
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