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You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:
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A Name Becomes a Curse
Commentators explain that the name of the unfaithful would become so infamous that it would be used as a formula for a curse. Their punishment would serve as a proverbial example of divine judgment, to the point where someone might say, 'If I am lying, may God punish me as He did them.' This illustrates the severe consequences of rejecting God.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen - To my people; to those whom I have selected to be my friends. The word re…
19th Century
Anglican
You shall leave your name for a curse ... —The phrase has parallels in Numbers 5:21; Zechariah 8:13;[Reference…
16th Century
Protestant
And you shall leave your name for a curse to my elect. He continues the same doctrine and teaches that God will eventually separate hypocr…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen Execrable and abominable to them, as the name of a Jew is t…
Here the different states of the godly and wicked, of the Jews who believed, and of those who persisted in unbelief, are set against one another. T…
13th Century
Catholic
They have sought me. Here the judge, God, gives the sentence of separation between the wicked and the good regarding the recepti…
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