Isaiah 2:6

For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their land is filled as at the beginning with divinations, as the land of the Philistines, and many strange children were born to them.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

In Context

5And now, O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

7For their land is filled with silver and gold, and there was no number of their treasures; their land also is filled with horses, and there was no number of their chariots.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:16and thou shouldest take of their daughters to thy sons, and thou shouldest give of thy daughters to their sons; and thy daughters should go a-whoring after their gods, and thy sons should go a-whoring after their gods.

Leviticus 20:6And the soul that shall follow those who have in them divining spirits, or enchanters, so as to go a-whoring after them; I will set my face against that soul, and will destroy it from among its people.

Numbers 25:1And Israel sojourned in Shittim, and the people profaned itself by going a-whoring after the daughters of Moab.

Deuteronomy 18:14For all these nations whose land thou shalt inherit, they will listen to omens and divinations; but the Lord thy God has not permitted thee so to do.

Deuteronomy 31:16And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people will arise and go a-whoring after the strange gods of the land, into which they are entering: and they will forsake me, and break my covenant, which I made with them.

1 Samuel 6:2And the Philistines call their priests, and their prophets, and their enchanters, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the Lord? teach us wherewith we shall send it away to its place.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 2:2-6

Increase of the Church Predicted. ( b. c. 758.) 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord 's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord , to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his… Read the whole commentary →

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