3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,
3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty,
3 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as The Strong God, but by my name God (I-Am-Present) I was not known to them.
3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name Lord I was not known to them.
3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as El-Shaddai-'God Almighty' -but I did not reveal my name, Yahweh, to them.
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
18 Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord- that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.
18 that they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.
18 Then they'll learn your name: "God," the one and only High God on earth.
18 That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.
18 Then they will learn that you alone are called the Lord, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.
(Read Psalm 83:9-18)
All who oppose the kingdom of Christ may here read their doom. God is the same still that ever he was; the same to his people, and the same against his and their enemies. God would make their enemies like a wheel; unsettled in all their counsels and resolves. Not only let them be driven away as stubble, but burnt as stubble. And this will be the end of wicked men. Let them be made to fear thy name, and perhaps that will bring them to seek thy name. We should desire no confusion to our enemies and persecutors but what may forward their conversion. The stormy tempest of Divine vengeance will overtake them, unless they repent and seek the pardoning mercy of their offended Lord. God's triumphs over his enemies, clearly prove that he is, according to his name JEHOVAH, an almighty Being, who has all power and perfection in himself. May we fear his wrath, and yield ourselves to be his willing servants. And let us seek deliverance by the destruction of our fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.
5 For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.
5 For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.
5 Pagan gods are mere tatters and rags. God made the heavens -
5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the Lord made the heavens.
5 The gods of other nations are mere idols, but the Lord made the heavens!
(Read Psalm 96:1-9)
When Christ finished his work on earth, and was received into his glory in heaven, the church began to sing a new song unto him, and to bless his name. His apostles and evangelists showed forth his salvation among the heathen, his wonders among all people. All the earth is here summoned to worship the Lord. We must worship him in the beauty of holiness, as God in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself. Glorious things are said of him, both as motives to praise and matter of praise.
5 Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial.
5 the Lord God Almighty, the Lord is his name!
5 the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial name:
5 God is God-of-the-Angel-Armies, God-Revealed, God-Known.
5 That is, the Lord God of hosts. The Lord is His memorable name.
5 the Lord God of Heaven's Armies, the Lord is his name!
(Read Hosea 12:1-6)
Ephraim feeds himself with vain hopes of help from man, when he is at enmity with God. The Jews vainly thought to secure the Egyptians by a present of the produce of their country. Judah is contended with also. God sees the sin of his own people, and will reckon with them for it. They are put in mind of what Jacob did, and what God did for him. When his faith upon the Divine promise prevailed above his fears, then by his strength he had power with God. He is Jehovah, the same that was, and is, and is to come. What was a revelation of God to one, is his memorial to many, to all generations. Then let those who have gone from God, be turned to him. Turn thou to the Lord, by repentance and faith, as thy God. Let those that are converted to him, walk with him in all holy conversation and godliness. Let us wrestle with Him for promised blessings, determined not to give over till we prevail; and let us seek Him in his ordinances.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 6:3
Commentary on Exodus 6:1-9
(Read Exodus 6:1-9)
We are most likely to prosper in attempts to glorify God, and to be useful to men, when we learn by experience that we can do nothing of ourselves; when our whole dependence is placed on him, and our only expectation is from him. Moses had been expecting what God would do; but now he shall see what he will do. God would now be known by his name Jehovah, that is, a God performing what he had promised, and finishing his own work. God intended their happiness: I will take you to me for a people, a peculiar people, and I will be to you a God. More than this we need not ask, we cannot have, to make us happy. He intended his own glory: Ye shall know that I am the Lord. These good words, and comfortable words, should have revived the drooping Israelites, and have made them forget their misery; but they were so taken up with their troubles, that they did not heed God's promises. By indulging discontent and fretfulness, we deprive ourselves of the comfort we might have, both from God's word and from his providence, and go comfortless.