Isaiah 2:6

Therefore Thou hast abandoned Thy people Bais Ya'akov, 1 because they have found their fullness from Kedem (the East), 1 and practice divination like the Pelishtim, 1 and they clasp hands contentedly with yaldei nochrim (children of foreigners). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

5O Bais Ya'akov, come ye, and let us walk 1 in the Ohr Hashem. 1

7Their land also is full of kesef and zahav, 1 neither is there any end of their otzarot; 1 their land is also full of susim, 1 neither is there any end of their merkevot: 1

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Cross References

Exodus 34:16And thou take of their banot unto thy banim, and their banot go a-whoring after their elohim, and make thy banim go a-whoring after their elohim.

Leviticus 20:6And the nefesh that turneth to Ovos (Mediums) and Yidonim (Spiritists), to go a-whoring after them, I will even set My face against that nefesh, and will cut him off from among his people.

Numbers 25:1And Yisroel was staying in Sheetim, and HaAm began to commit whoredom with the Banot Moav.

Deuteronomy 18:14For these Goyim, which thou shalt dispossess, paid heed unto soothsayers, and unto diviners; but as for thee, Hashem Eloheicha hath not suffered thee so to do.

Deuteronomy 31:16And Hashem said unto Moshe, Behold, thou shalt sleep with Avoteicha; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot going after the elohei nekhar ha'aretz (g-ds of the foreigners of the land), whither they go to be among them, and will forsake Me, and break My Brit which I have cut them.

1 Samuel 6:2And the Pelishtim (Philistines) called for the + 6:2 Dagon kohanim and the kosemim (sorcerers), saying, What shall we do with the Aron Hashem? Tell us wherewith we shall send it to its makom (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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