This is the final and strongest reason Solomon finds it possible to present why God should remember His people Israel. They are the Lord’s inheritance on the basis of His own repeated claims and His oft-repeated promises. Through Moses the Lord revealed that He would make Israel His own peculiar people, chosen out of all the peoples ofearth (Ex. 19:5, 6; Deut. 14:2). They were to be known as “a people of inheritance” (Deut. 4:20; cf. 9:26, 29). For the Lord now to reject them would be to place in jeopardy the honor of His holy name (Ex. 32:12, 13; Num. 14:13, 14). Earnest pleas were raised to God at times of extremity that the Lord would deliver Israel for the honor of His name (Ps. 79:9, 10), and for the sake of the city and the people called by His name (Dan. 9:19). At the time of Ezekiel the Lord declared that it was because of His “name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen” (Eze. 20:9, 14; cf. 20:22) that He had wrought so mightily in delivering Israel from Egypt.