Isaiah 57:5

Enflaming yourselves among + 57:5 cult prostitution and Ba'al sympathetic magic in worshipping fertility elim (oaks, big trees) 1 under every spreading tree, 1 slaughtering the yeladim in the valleys 1 under the clefts of the rocks? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

In Context

4At whom are you sneering? 1 Against whom make ye a wide mouth, 1 and draw out the leshon? 1 Are ye not yeledim of peysha (rebellion), 1 zera sheker? 1

6Among the smooth stones of the wadi is thy chelek; 1 they are thy goral; 1 even to them + 57:6 the stone idols; see Jer 3:9 hast thou poured nesekh, 1 thou hast offered minchah. 1 For these [provocations], should I relent? 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:21And thou shalt not let any of thy zera pass through [the eish] + 18:21 i.e., be sacrificed and burned or cremated to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the Shem Eloheicha; I am Hashem.

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

Deuteronomy 12:2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the Goyim which ye shall possess served their elohim, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree;

2 Kings 16:3But he walked in the derech of the Melachim of Yisroel, and even made bno to pass through the eish, according to the to'avot of the Goyim, whom Hashem cast out from before the Bnei Yisroel.

2 Kings 17:7For so it was, that the Bnei Yisroel had sinned against Hashem Eloheihem Who had brought them up out of Eretz Mitzrayim, from under the yad of Pharaoh Melech Mitzrayim, had feared elohim acherim,

2 Kings 23:10And he made tameh Tophet, which is in the Gey of the ben Hinnom, that no ish might make his ben or his bat to pass through the eish to Molech.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 57:4-13

A Charge against the People. ( b. c. 706.) 3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. 4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood, 5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou… Read the whole commentary →

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