We ask the following database query: When is the phrase God of so and so used? The reader is encouraged to perform the query using a standard Biblical Konnkordance or search engine. This database query yields the list below. The list justifies the inference that
• People use the phrase God of so and so whether so and so is alive or dead
• God with one exception only says God of so and so on dead people
• The one exception where God said the God of so and so on a live so and so is by Isaac in verse Gn28-13 which states And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed; .
The list below presents the results of the database query and provides examples.

Verse	Said by	To	God of whom	Dead / alive
2C34-03a	Biblical Author	Yoshiyahu	God of David	Dead
2C21-12	Elijah	Yehoram	God of David	Dead
Ex03-06	God	Moshe	God of Abraham	Dead
Is02-03	Isiah	Nations	God of Jacob	Dead
Gn28-13	God	Jacob	God of Isaac	Alive
- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -
2C32-17	Sancheriv	Jews	God of Chizkiyahu	Alive
Gn09-26	Noach	Cham	God of Shaym	Alive
Gn24-12	Eliezer	God	God of Abraham	Alive

Rashi further explains that People who are alive have sexual temptations and may sin - therefore it would not be proper to call them God of so and so since if they sin they would not deserve the title. Hence Jacob was reluctant to say God of Isaac during his father's lifetime and instead said The Fear of Isaac.

Advanced Rashi: Several points should be made. First: Rashi only states that God does not let his name lie on the righteous during their lifetime. We have extended Rashi's principle. God does not do this but people will do it. The justification for this is the above table.

Rashi points out that Isaac is the one exception where we find God calling Himself The God of Isaac during Isaac's lifetime. Isaac had led a monogomous life, never had a concubine, and had reached a mature stage of marriage. Hence it was very unlikely he would sin. Rashi expresses Isaac's spiritual emotinal security by citing the Biblical verse stating his eyesight dimmed which we interpret to mean his passions were dimmed. This justified God saying The God of Isaac. However while God could be reasonably certain that Isaac would never sin, Jacob could not be and therefore Jacob took the more conservative approach and used the phrase the The fear of Isaac.