Isaiah 2:6
Yahweh, you have abandoned us your people who are descendants of Jacob, because everywhere your people practice the customs of people who live east of Israel. Your people also perform rituals to find out what will happen in the future, like the people in Philistia do. They make agreements/treaties with ◄pagans/people who do not know you►.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
5You Israeli people, let’s walk in the light [MET] that comes from Yahweh!
Cross References
Exodus 34:16If you take some of their women to be wives for your sons, and these women worship their own gods, they will persuade your sons also to worship their gods.
Leviticus 20:6‘ will reject [IDM] those who go to those who ◄consult/talk with► the spirits of dead people and fortune-tellers to seek advice from them. I will command that they no longer be allowed to associate with my people.
Numbers 25:1While the Israelis were camped at a place called Acacia Grove, some of the men caused themselves to become unacceptable to God by having sex with some of the women of the Moab people-group who lived in that area.
Deuteronomy 18:14The people-groups that you are about to expel from the land that you will occupy ◄consult/seek advice from► soothsayers and those who practice divination. But as for you, Yahweh our God does not allow you to do that.
Deuteronomy 31:16Yahweh said to Moses/me, “You will soon die [EUP]. Then these people will become unfaithful [MET] to me. They will abandon me and ◄break/stop obeying► the agreement that I made with them. They will begin to worship the foreign/pagan gods that are worshiped by the people of the land that they will enter.
1 Samuel 6:2Then they summoned their priests and their ◄diviners/men who practice rituals to find out what would happen in the future►. They asked them, “What should we do with the sacred chest of Yahweh? Tell us how we should send it back to its own land.”
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 →