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Isaiah 42:8

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I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
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  1. Isaiah 48:11Rank 1 from verse 8
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    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.

  2. Isaiah 43:11Rank 2 from verse 8
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    11I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.

  3. Exodus 34:14Rank 3 from verse 8
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    14For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

  4. Exodus 20:3–5Rank 4 from verse 8
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    3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

    4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

    5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

  5. Psalms 83:18Rank 5 from verse 8
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    18That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

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Isaiah 42:8

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name

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Sense 1: A word, appellation, or designation by which a person or thing is called or known. Sense 2: The person or persons named or represented. Sense 3: Reputation, character, renown, or remembrance. Sense 4: The authority, behalf, or standing represented by a name. Sense 5: As a verb, to call, designate, or mention by name.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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glory

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Sense 1: Splendour, honour, praise, majesty, or a ground of rejoicing or boasting. Sense 2: To boast, exult, take pride, or rejoice in a person or thing.

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another

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1. In "one another" and like reciprocal or distributive constructions, each the other, or one in relation to the other or others. 2. One other, one more, or a different or additional person or thing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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neither

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1. Also not; nor, introducing or joining a further negative statement or prohibition. 2. Not either, or none, of the alternatives named, commonly in a neither ... nor construction.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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praise

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1. Commendation, thanksgiving, honour, or good report. 2. To commend, thank, honour, or declare excellence.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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images

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Likenesses, representations, or visible forms; often idols when made or used as objects of worship.

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42:5¶ Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

42:6I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

42:7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

42:8I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

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42:9Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

42:10Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

42:11Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

42:12Let them give glory unto the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands.

42:13The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.

42:14I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

42:15I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

42:16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

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