11For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
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.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)The deliverance of God’s people out of their captivity in Babylon was a thing upon many accounts so improbable that there was need of line upon line for the encouragement of the faith and hope of God’s people concerning it. Two things were discouraging to them—their own unworthiness that God should do it for them and the many difficulties in the thing itself; now, in these verses, both these disco…
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