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When they came to the nations, where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out of his land.
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God's Reputation at Stake
Commentators agree that Israel profaned God's name simply by their state of exile. When the surrounding nations saw God's chosen people defeated and scattered, they didn't blame Israel's sin; they concluded that Israel's God was a weak, local deity unable to protect His own people. This brought dishonor to God's reputation on an international stage.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The defilement of the people described in order to its removal.
They profaned my holy name (Ezekiel 36:20) – caus…
19th Century
Anglican
When they said to them.—We are not to understand that the Israelites profaned God’s name among the Gentiles in the way spoken of i…
Baptist
Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when they entered to the Heathen, where they went , &c.] When the Jews went into the Heathen countries, where they we…
The restoration of that people, being typical of our redemption by Christ, shows that the end aimed at in our salvation is the glory of God. The si…
