Divine Name
THE NEW SIMPLIFIED BIBLE HONORS THE DIVINE NAME: Matthew 6:9 "Our Father in heaven, holy is your name." Many modern Bibles do not contain the majestic name of the true God of the Bible, Jehovah. Far from keeping it holy, it has been lost to millions of Bible readers. Four basic Hebrew letters were used to present the Divine Name, Jehovah. In many modern languages these letters are YHWH or JHVH. They are from the four consonants written almost 7,000 times in the original "Old Testament" or Hebrew Scriptures. These four letters are called the Tetragrammaton and every Bible Translator is acquainted with them!
Most Bible translators remove the divine name 6,828 times as if it did not exist in the original text. And yet they retain the names of many false gods mentioned in the original text. Included in this list are Baal, Bel, Merodach, and even Satan!
Bible writer Agur asked: “Who gathered the wind in the hollow of both hands? Who wrapped up the waters in a mantle? Who made the ends of the earth to rise? What is his name and what is his son’s name? (Proverbs 30:4) God revealed his name to us at Isaiah 42:8: “I am Jehovah; that is my name!” The apostle Paul quoted Joel 2:32 at Romans 10:13 where he said: “Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” Hallelujah means, “praise Jah”, which is a shortened form of Jehovah. Amos 4:13 proclaims His name: “Behold he who formed the mountains and created the wind and declared to man his thoughts, also made the morning darkness and treads upon the high places of the Earth: Jehovah, the God of Hosts, is his name.”
NAME USED TO SHOW RESPECT: The divine name is used out of respect for our God who has a name! It belongs in the Hebrew Scriptures 6,828 times. The English rendering of God’s personal name is “Jehovah”. Yahweh may be considered by some, the closest to the divine name in the Hebrew Language, but Jehovah is still closest to the divine name in the English Language. William Tyndale first restored it to the English Bible in the year 1530. It is the closest rendering in English. We do not know the exact spelling or pronunciation, however “Jehovah” has been used for centuries, and it’s equivalent is widely accepted and used in many languages today. The important thing is that we use God’s name with respect and out of love.
It is a fact, everywhere you read in the Holy Scriptures you find His name! And that requires an honest attempt to use it. There is no good reason to hide God’s name with the use of titles such as “LORD” or “GOD” in all capital letters.
How would you feel if people only addressed you as “man” or “woman” and completely ignored your name? It would be very offensive. Like a verbal slap in the face!
God leaves no doubt in his Word about the identity of Jesus! “There was a voice from heaven that said: “This is my Son, the beloved, whom I have approved.” (Matthew 3:16,17) Jesus is the SON OF GOD and is identified that way many times in the Greek Scriptures. Jesus showed his Father respect. Jesus used God’s name!
DID JESUS USE THE DIVINE NAME? Did Jesus Christ and his disciples use the divine name in speech and in writing? The name Jesus means “Jehovah Is Salvation.” It is reasonable to believe that he knew the meaning of his Hebrew name. Jesus also stated: “I came in my Father’s name.” (John 5:43) The very first thing he told his followers to pray in the model prayer was “Our Father in heaven, holy is your name.” (Mt 6:9) Throughout his time on earth Jesus performed many great deeds and always gave credit to Jehovah.
On the night of his death Jesus prayed, “I taught your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world.” (John 17: 6) “Keep them in your name.” (John 17:11) He went on to pray, “While I was with them I kept them in your name, which you have given to me.” (John 17:12) Jesus closed his prayer, “I have made your name known, and will make it known.” (John 17:26)
Jesus Christ avowed to the apostle John in vision that his (Jesus’) God had a name: "'I will make the one who overcomes, a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will not go out from it anymore. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is the New Jerusalem. This city comes down out of heaven from my God. I will write my new name on him. (Rev 3:12)
APOSTLE PETER: The apostle Peter knew God’s name. “Simeon declared how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.” (Ac 15:14) Peter recognized the need to honor and even call on the name of Jehovah. He gave credit to God and cited the prophet Joel when speaking to the crowd, after they heard them speak in their own language. Peter quoted Joel 2:27-32. This Scripture contains the divine name four times. The apostle Peter quoted Zephaniah 1:14 when he warned, “the great day of Jehovah is near.” (2 Peter 3:8-12)
THE APOSTLE PAUL TO THE ROMANS: The apostle Paul condemned the Romans because “The name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, just as it is written.” (Ro 2:24) He quoted Joel at Romans 10:13, “Every one who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” (Joel 2:32) Again referring to God’s name. Paul quoted from the Hebrew Scriptures when he told the Romans “That the nations might glorify God for his mercy as it is written: “For this cause I will confess you to the people of the nations, and sing to your name.” (Ro 15:9)
APOSTLE PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS: ‘Let it be as it is written, “He that boast, let him boast in Jehovah!”’ This is a quote from Jeremiah 9:24. It is found at 1 Corinthians 1:31. Paul wrote it. He knew the divine name, and he honored it! At 1 Corinthians 3:20 Paul quoted Psalm 94:11: “Jehovah knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain (useless) (empty).” The apostle Paul relates the divine name, Jehovah, to the Corinthians from nearly a dozen Hebrew Scriptures. (See list: Hebrew Scripture Quotes Containing the Divine Name below)
APOSTLE JOHN IN REVELATION: The name Jehovah is not found in Johns letters, however it is found in a dynamic way in “the Revelation God gave to Jesus Christ…Christ then sent his angel to communicate the symbolic message to his servant John.” (Revelation 1:1) One of the most profound statements containing the divine name is found at Revelation 4:8: “Never resting day or night, they say: Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah God the Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.” (Isaiah 6:3) There are at least fifteen quotes in Revelation from the Hebrew Scriptures that contain the divine name. (See list: Hebrew Scripture Quotes Containing the Divine Name below)
LISTEN TO WHAT GOD TOLD MOSES: “You shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘JEHOVAH, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ (JEHOVAH) THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER! This is my memorial-name to all generations.” (Ex 3:15)
PROPHET AMOS PROCLAIMS HIS NAME: “Behold he who formed the mountains and created the wind and declared to man his thoughts, also made the morning darkness and treads upon the high places of the Earth: Jehovah, the God of Hosts, is his name.” (Amos 4:13)
ISAIAH THE PROPHET: "In that day you will say: “Give thanks to Jehovah, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.” (Isa 12:4)
PROPHET EZEKIEL MAKES JEHOVAH'S NAME KNOWN: “I will magnify myself, sanctify myself, and make myself known in the sight of many nations! They will know that I am Jehovah.” (Eze 38:23)
MALACHI DECLARES NAME: Malachi informs us that a book in heaven contains those who respect God’s name: “Those who respected Jehovah spoke to one another, and Jehovah listened to what they had to say. In his presence a memorial record was written down in a book listing those who reverence Jehovah and respect (esteem) (regard) his name.” (Malachi 3:16)
TRANSLATIONS THAT HONOR THE DIVINE NAME: The following is a list of Bible translations that include the English divine name Jehovah: New World Translation 1984, New Simplified Bible 2003, Darby 1889, American Standard Version 1901, Literal Translation of the Holy Bible 2000, and Young’s Literal Translation 1898. The New Jerusalem 1985 uses the rendering Yahweh.
DIVINE NAME IN CHRISTIAN GREEK SCRIPTURES: The “Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures” contains the “New Testament in the Original Greek” by B.F.Westcott and F.J.A. Hort – 1881. The English text is found directly underneath the Greek words. The English word “Lord” is found under the Greek word “Kyrios” nearly every time it appears, even when it is a direct quote from the Hebrew Scriptures.
The New Simplified Bible takes the position that all direct quotes from the Hebrew Scriptures found in the “New Testament” that contain the four letter word known as the “Tetragrammaton: YHWH or JHVH” should include the Divine Name: Jehovah. It uses the English word “God” in all other places where the Greek word “Kyrios” is found in order to distinguish between God and Jesus, His Son, since both are referred to as Lord.
It is believed by some that sometime during the second or third century C.E. the scribes removed the Tetragrammaton from both the Septuagint and the Christian Greek Scriptures and replaced it with Kyrios, "Lord" or "God" or Theos, "God." The New Simplified Bible makes no assumptions that the Tetragrammaton was or was not removed from certain Greek or Hebrew Manuscripts. Without absolute proof it is better to use the divine name in the quotes from the Hebrew Scriptures then to assume it belongs everywhere in the Greek. A complete search for the name Jehovah in the New Simplified Bible Greek Scriptures reveals a total of 127 occurrences. The following is a partial list of the occurrences in the Greek Scriptures where the name Jehovah is found in the NSB along with the reference to the Hebrew Scriptures:
Hebrew Scripture Quotes Containing Divine Name
Matthew 2:15 - Hosea 11:1
Matthew 3:3 - Isaiah 40:3
Matthew 4:4 - Deuteronomy 8:3
Matthew 4:7 - Deuteronomy 6:16
Matthew 4:10 - Deuteronomy 6:13-15
Matthew 5:33 - Deuteronomy 23:21
Matthew 21:9 - Psalm 118:26
Matthew 21:42 - Isaiah 28:16
Matthew 22:37 - Deuteronomy 6:5
Matthew 22:44 - Psalm 110:1
Matthew 23:39 - Psalm 118:26
Mark 1:3 - Isaiah 40:3
Mark 12:11 - Psalm 118:23
Mark 12:29, 30 - Deuteronomy 6:4
Mark 12:36 - Psalms 110:1
Mark 13:20 - Isaiah 1:9
Luke 1:16 – 1 Samuel 7:3
Luke 1:17 – Malachi 3:1
Luke 1:32 - Isaiah 11:1-10
Luke 1:38 - 1 Samuel 1:11
Luke 1:68 – Psalm 72:18
Luke 1:76 - Malachi 3:1
Luke 2:23 – Exodus 13:1, 2
Luke 3:4-6 –Isaiah 40:3-6
Luke 4:8 - Deuteronomy 6:13-15; 10:12; 10:20; Exodus 20:3-5
Luke 4:12 – Deuteronomy 6:16
Luke 4:18, 19 – Isaiah 61:1
Luke 10:27 – Leviticus 19:18; Deuteronomy 6:5
Luke 19:38 – Psalms 118:26; 134:3
Luke 20:37 – Exodus 3:6-14
Luke 20:42 – Psalm 110:1
John 1:23 – Isaiah 40:3
John 6:45 – Jeremiah 31:34
John 12:13 – Psalm 118:26
John 12:38 –Isaiah 53:1
Acts 2:20 – Joel 2:31
Acts 2:21 – Joel 2:32
Acts 2:25 – Psalm 16:8
Acts 2:34, 35 - Psalm 110:1
Acts 3:19 – Deuteronomy 18:18, 19
Acts 3:22 – Deuteronomy 18:18
Acts 4:26 – Psalm 2:2
Acts 7:30 – Exodus 3:3
Acts 7:33 – Exodus 3:5
Acts 7:49 – Isaiah 66:1
Acts 9:31 – Psalm 86:11
Acts 13:47 – Isaiah 49:6
Acts 15:17 – Amos 9:12
Romans 4:3 – Genesis 15:6
Romans 4:8 – Psalms 32:2
Romans 9:28 – Isaiah 10:22
Romans 9:29 – Isaiah 1:9
Romans 10:13 – Joel 2:32
Romans 10:16 – Isaiah 53:1
Romans 11:3 – 1 Kings 19:14, 18
Romans 11:34 – Isaiah 40:13
Romans 12:19 – Deuteronomy 32:35
Romans 14:11 – Isaiah 45:23
Romans 15:11 – Psalm 117:1
1 Corinthians 1:31 – Jeremiah 9:24
1 Corinthians 2:16 – Isaiah 40:13
1 Corinthians 3:20 – Psalm 94:11
1 Corinthians 10:26 – Psalm 24:1
1 Corinthians 11:32 – Proverbs 3:1
1 Corinthians 14:21 – Isaiah 28:11, 12
2 Corinthians 6:17 – Isaiah 52:11; Jeremiah 51:45
2 Corinthians 6:18 – Hosea 1:10
2 Corinthians 10:17 – Jeremiah 9:24
2 Corinthians 10:18 – Proverbs 29:26
Galatians 3:6 – Genesis 15:6
Ephesians 2:21 – Zechariah 6:12
1 Thessalonians 5:2 – Zephaniah 1:14
2 Thessalonians 2:2 – Isaiah 13:6; Zephaniah 1:14
Hebrews 2:13 – Isaiah 8:18
Hebrews 7:21 – Psalms 110:4
Hebrews 8:8 – Jeremiah 31:31
Hebrews 8:10 – Jeremiah 33:32
Hebrews 8:11 – Hosea 2:20
Hebrews 10:16 – Jeremiah 31:33
Hebrews 10:30 – Deuteronomy 32:35
Hebrews 12:5, 6 – Proverbs 3:11, 12
Hebrews 13:6 – Psalm 56:11
James 2:23 – Genesis 5:6; Isaiah 41:8
James 3:9 – Psalm 34:1
James 5:10, 11 – Psalm 103:8
2 Peter 2:9 – Psalm 34:19
2 Peter 3:8-12 – Psalm 90:1, 4; Joel 2:31; Zephaniah 1:14
Jude 9 – Zechariah 3:2
Revelation 1:8 – Isaiah 48:12
Revelation 4:8 – Isaiah 6:3; Exodus 6:3
Revelation 4:11 – Genesis 2:3
Revelation 11:17 – Exodus 6:3; Amos 4:13
Revelation 15:3, 4 – Deuteronomy 31:30; 32:4; Exodus 6:3
Revelation 16:5-7 – Exodus 3:14; 6:3; Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalm 145:17
Revelation 18:8 – Jeremiah 50:34; 51:58
Revelation 19:1 – Psalm 106:48; 117:1; 150:6
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