9 Bible Verses about Changed Names
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Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made you.
And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
And he said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince have you power with God and with men, and have prevailed.
And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenathpaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
And God said unto him, Your name is Jacob: your name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be your name: and he called his name Israel. And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of you, and kings shall spring forth from you;
It was all around eighteen thousand cubits by measure: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he has thrown down his altar.
And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
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