Hebrew YHWH Sabaoth / Tzeva'ot (יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת). Military / angelic-host connotation. The name most frequent in Isaiah (Isa 6:3 — "Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts"; Isa 44:6). Ps 24 opens the procession-of-the-King psalm with the LORD of hosts as the King of glory.
YHWH-Sabaoth — the LORD of hosts
1 Sam 1:3 — Hannah's prayer at Shiloh; pervasive in the prophets.
Primary passage:Isaiah 6:3 →
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John Calvin
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1. In the year that king Uzziah died. This is usually the beginning of the sixth chapter; but some think that it is the beginning of the book itself, and that in collecting the prophecies of Isaiah an error was committed. The reason which they assign is, that the Prophet…
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