Sublime

God’s names reveal His character and actions. And where He provided is noteworthy too. It was “on the mount of the LORD.” Most people believe this mountain is where Solomon builds the temple and that it’s also on this short stretch of mountains that Jesus is crucified. “On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided” (22:14). And it was.

For cities inside Canaan, they should operate by a principle called cherem, under which everything is dedicated to YHWH and devoted to destruction.

Jehovah Tsidkenu, which means “the LORD Our Righteousness.”

First, there is the city yet to be (verses 13–16), in which all that was implicit in the old Jerusalem (verse 7–9) will be fully realized: the city where the Lord resides (verses 13–14), where

But the biggest change in the city’s role within redemptive history comes with the establishment of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem becomes the city that is the dwelling place for God’s Name

5 I am the LORD, and there is no other; besides me there is no god. I arm you, though you do not know me, 6 so that they may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is no one besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. 7 I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe; I the LORD do all these things. 8

3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia[122] and Seba in exchange for you.