God of heaven. First occurrence of this expression. Now used because His People was Lo Ammi (= "not My People"), and He (Jehovah) had withdrawn from their midst. It is the title peculiar to the times of the Gentiles, while God acts from heaven, and not from between the cherubim as Jehovah the God of Israel, or as "the Lord of all the earth" (His millennial title). See the other occurrences (twenty in all. 3x6, App-10): Ezra 1:2; Ezra 5:11; Ezra 5:12; Ezra 6:9; Ezra 6:10; Ezra 6:7; Ezra 6:12; Ezra 6:21, Ezr 6:23.Nehemiah 1:4; Nehemiah 1:5; Nehemiah 2:4; Nehemiah 2:20; Psalms 136:26; Daniel 2:18; Daniel 2:19; Daniel 2:37; Daniel 2:44.Jonah 1:9; Revelation 11:13; Revelation 16:11.
He hath charged me. Compare Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:13.