Isaiah 2:6

For you have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob, 1 because they are filled with customs from the east and they practice divination like the Philistines, 1 and they shake hands with sons of foreigners. 1

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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

5House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh. 1

7Their land is full of silver and gold, and is there no limit to their wealth; 1 their land also is full of horses, nor is there limit to their chariots. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 34:16and then you will even take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods, and they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods.

Leviticus 20:6The person who turns to those who talk with the dead, or to those who talk with spirits so as to prostitute themselves with them, I will set my face against that person; I will cut him off from among his people.

Numbers 25:1Israel stayed in Shittim, and the men began to prostitute themselves with women of Moab,

Deuteronomy 18:14For these nations that you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and divination; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do so.

Deuteronomy 31:16Yahweh said to Moses, “Look, you will sleep with your fathers; this people will rise up and act like a prostitute going after the strange gods that are among them in the land where they are going. They will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.

1 Samuel 6:2Then the Philistine people called for the priests and the diviners; they said to them, “What should we do with the ark of Yahweh? Tell us how we should send it back to its own country.”

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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