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2 Kings and Isaiah similarly describe God directly participating in honor and shame culture, restoring his damaged reputation or preventing it from being damaged.
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2 Kings 19:34
Hebrew Bible
33 He will go back the way he came. He will not enter this city,” says the Lord. 34 “‘I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.’” 35 That very night the angel of the Lord went out and killed 185,000 in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses.
Isaiah 48:11
Hebrew Bible
10 Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery. 11 For my sake alone I will act, for how can I allow my name to be defiled? I will not share my glory with anyone else! 12 Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I summoned. I am the one; I am present at the very beginning and at the very end.
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“... THE TEXT IN BIBLICAL CONTEXT — For My Name’s Sake — In Isaiah 48:9 and 11, and earlier in 43:25 and 37:35, the Lord acts for my name’s sake or for my own sake rather than for the sake of Jacob-Israel. This thought, mentioned infrequently in the book of Isaiah, finds expression elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible. Two psalms, for example, speak in this way. In Psalm 25:11 the psalmist asks God for your name’s sake to pardon his guilt. Again, in Psalm 106:8 the Lord is said to have saved the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt for his name’s sake. The motive for the Lord’s liberation in each case does not rest on compassion for the distressed but on concern for the Lord’s own reputation. ...”
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