The Names and Titles of God: Jehovah, Part 1

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Remember, the words GOD and LORD (all capital letters) in the are best translated Jehovah. Jehovah is the personal . It is that Name which is above every other name. The meaning of the word is . Every time it is used in the Scriptures it is connected with : “And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out and the LORD [Jehovah] helped him; and God moved them to depart from him” ().

While the personal name of God, Jehovah, was written, it was . The Jews considered that name by human lips. It is a possibility that this pronunciation is not correct even today, for the Hebrew language is . The name Jehovah, in the Hebrew, is spelled JHVH. We trust that we are pronouncing it correctly: It could be pronounced Jeheveh, or Jihivih, or Jahavah, or many other different ways. When the scribes came to this name Jehovah to copy, they washed their bodies, and the pens with which they spelled this name were cleansed. Even in public, when readers of sacred Scriptures came to this word they would not pronounce it, , but would substitute the word or in its place. One reason why the word Jehovah was suppressed was to upon the minds of the people.

When the LORD [Jehovah] appeared unto Moses in the burning bush, and commissioned him to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt into the Promised Land, Moses asked, “When I come unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?” God said unto him, “ ... I AM hath sent me unto you” (Ex. 3:13, 14). Jehovah is the . There is no with Jehovah; He is the , the — One that made Himself known.

In we read: “I am …” “I am .” There were many different Elohims, but there was only one Jehovah. You read in the Word, the “”; but never, the “Jehovah of Israel”; for there were no more Jehovahs. When Elijah and the prophets of Baal had a contest, it was to determine which was Elohim (God), Jehovah or Baal.

Yes, Jehovah was always related in a with his own people, but His relationship to His creatures (this includes ) was always as Elohim. The same today. God is God of all the unsaved, but He is Jehovah, the Father, of all who are saved. The Book of Jonah illustrates this. In chapters three and four the people called upon , but Jonah called upon They were lost; he was saved. They became saved, and could, after their salvation, call God Jehovah. See other Scriptures: Judges 7:14, 15; II Chronicles 19:6-9; Genesis 7:16; I Samuel 17:46.


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