pCited Acts 15:17, 18
Genesis 32:28
28Then he said, a“Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, ▼▼ Israel means He strives with God, or God strives
for cyou have striven with God and dwith men, and have prevailed.” Genesis 48:5
5And now your etwo sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, fare mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.Deuteronomy 28:10
10And gall the peoples of the earth shall see that you are hcalled by the name of the Lord, and they shall be iafraid of you.2 Chronicles 7:14
14if my people who are called by my name jhumble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.Jeremiah 14:9
9Why should you be like a man confused,klike a mighty warrior who cannot save?
Yet lyou, O Lord, are in the midst of us,
and mwe are called by your name;
ndo not leave us.”
Amos 9:12
12 othat they may possess the remnant of Edomand pall the nations who are called by my name,” ▼
▼Hebrew; Septuagint (compare Acts 15:17) that the remnant of mankind and all the nations who are called by my name may seek the Lord
declares the Lord who does this.
Acts 15:17
17that the remnant ▼▼Or rest
of mankind smay seek the Lord,and all the Gentiles twho are called by my name,
says the Lord, who makes these things
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