the name Jehovah

Elohim is the plural of the word El wich quite simply means god--it is the root word also of both the Arabic Allah and Aramic (Jesus' language)Alahu. YHWH or YHVH was only used by priests and scribes while common people even today use Elohim in modern Hebrew. Modern Christians and Jews are essentially worshipping the ancient Israelite sky god.In ancient times (and you can even see this in early scripture) the Israelites only thought of Elohim or YHWH as their own particular tribal deity--hence "Thou shall not have any other God before me..." It was only in later times--during the exiles in Babylon and Assyria that Hebrews began to view their Elohim/YHWH as a universal God.

I have read the entire O.T from beginning to end and have taken into account that it wasn't all written at the same time or in the same place. It was written over a period of hundreds of years by many different authors with many different agendas. As to the references to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob there is no non-Biblical evidence what so ever that those men even existed. For all we know the Israelites invented them to make it seem their tribe was older than it really was. A large portion of the Bible was written to support the fledging Kingdom of Israel's claim on the land of Canaan.It is a cliche that history is written by the victors. Imagine if the Caanites had defeated the Israelite invaders. We'd be having this same discussion but the deity in question would be Baal instead of Elohim.