Ezekiel 39:7

So I will make My holy name known among My people Israel and will no longer allow it to be profaned. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — God speaks through Ezekiel immediately after describing the defeat of Gog’s forces, declaring His direct intervention among Israel.

The words — The Hebrew verb אוֹדִיעַ ('odi'a) means "I will make known," directly governing שֵׁם (shem) "name" and קָדְשִׁי (qodshi) "My holiness" to form the core declaration.

The thread — This pattern repeats in Ezekiel 38:23 where God sanctifies Himself so the nations know He is the LORD, and directly contrasts Exodus 20:7's prohibition against treating His name as common.

Why it lands — The text requires the reader to acknowledge that divine identity is established through historical action rather than abstract claim, demanding recognition of God's exclusive authority over Israel and the nations.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

Cross-references

Ezekiel 38:16 You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.
Ezekiel 38:23 I will magnify and sanctify Myself, and I will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
Isaiah 12:6 Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
Ezekiel 20:14 But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezekiel 20:39 And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.
Isaiah 43:3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place.
Isaiah 43:14 Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake, I will send to Babylon and bring them all as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
Isaiah 55:5 Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”
Isaiah 60:9 Surely the islands will wait for Me, with the ships of Tarshish in the lead, to bring your children from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for He has glorified you.