Bible translators like to emphasize the I AM of Exodus 3:14 and the I AM of John 8:58 in the hopes that because Jesus and YHWH said the same two wordsn then they can be identified together. Can you imagine the derision I would have to experience if I tried to connect 2 words that Jesus said with 2 words the archangel Michael seems to have said, and use that flimsy evidence to buttress a doctrine!?
K.L. McKay (John's Gospel," Expository Times (1996): 302-303) said something similar:
"It has become fashionable among some preachers and writers to relate Jesus's use of the words 'I am' in the Gospel according to John, in all, or most, of their contexts, to God's declaration to MOSES in Exodus 3:14, and to expound the passages concerned as if the words themselves have some kind of magic in them. Some who have no more than a smattering of Greek attribute the 'magic' to the Greek words ego eimi."
Many like to point out that the NWT translates EGW EIMI as "I am" everywhere, EXCEPT at John 8:58. This is not 100% true, and it does not factor in many Bibles that translate John 8:58 similarly to the New World Translation that do the same thing.
Let us look at other occurences with 'hyh (EHYEH)...and simply look at the image above where you have 2 occurences of the same word 2 verses apart, but it is translated as I AM at verse 14 because the translators' theology demanded it.
I have looked at all the occurences of `hyh I could find, and the results are overwhelming. Unless otherwise stated, the Bible used is the Revised Standard Version:
Exo 3:12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee ASV
Exo 3:14 see image above
Exo 4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak."
Exo 4:15 And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
Deu 31:23 And the LORD commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, "Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to give them: I will be with you."
Jos 1:5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you.
Jos 3:7 And the LORD said to Joshua, "This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
Jdg 6:16 And the LORD said to him, "But I will be with you, and you shall smite the Mid'ianites as one man."
Jdg 11:9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the Ammonites, and the LORD gives them over to me, I will be your head."
1Sa 18:18 And David said to Saul, "Who am I, and who are my kinsfolk, my father's family in Israel, that _I should be_ son-in-law to the king?"
1Sa 23:17 And he said to him, "Fear not; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you; you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you; Saul my father also knows this."
2Sa 7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men;
2Sa 15:34 But if you return to the city, and say to Ab'salom, 'I will be your servant, O king
2Sa 16:18 And Hushai said to Ab'salom, "No; for whom the LORD and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be
2Sa 16:19 And a second time, Whom should I serve? Should I not serve before the face of his son. As I served before the face of your father, so shall I be before your face. LITV
Isa 3:7 in that day he will speak out, saying: "I will not be a healer; in my house there is neither bread nor mantle; you shall not make me leader of the people."
Isa 47:7 You said, "I shall be mistress for ever," so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.
Jer 11:4 which I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God,
Jer 24:7 I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD; and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
Jer 30:22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God."
Jer 31:1 "At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people."
Jer 32:38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Eze 11:20 that they may walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Eze 14:11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, nor defile themselves any more with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, says the Lord GOD."
Eze 34:24 And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.
Eze 36:28 You shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Eze 37:23 They shall not defile themselves any more with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Hos 1:9 Then He said, Call his name Not My People, for you are not My people, and I will not be for you. LITV [RSV has "I am"]
Hos 14:6 his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
Zec 2:5[9] And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, and I will be for glory in her midst, declares Jehovah. LITV
Zec 8:8 and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness."
Psa 50:21 You have done these things, and I have kept silence; you thought that surely I would be like you LITV
Job 3:16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light. ASV
Job 10:19 I should have been as though I had not been ASV
*Job 12:4 I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor ASV
[Compare NIV "I have become a laughingstock to my friends"]
*Job 17:6 He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
[Compare NKJV "I have become one in whose face men spit."
KJV "and aforetime I was as a tabret."
DARBY "and I am become one to be spit on in the face."]
Song 1:7 for why should I be like one who wanders beside the flocks of your companions?
Rth 2:13 though I am not one of your maidservants
[Compare KJV, ASV "though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens."
NET "though I could never be equal to one of your servants."
1Ch 17:13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son
1Ch 28:6 I will be his father
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