Isaiah 57:5

You heat yourselves up sleeping together under the oaks, under every green tree, 1 you who kill your children in the dry riverbeds, under the rocky overhangs. 1

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

In Context

4Whom are you merrily mocking? 1 Against whom are you opening the mouth and sticking out the tongue? 1 Are you not children of rebellion, children of deceit? 1

6Among the smooth things of the river valley are the things that have been assigned to you. They are the object of your devotion. 1 You pour out your drink offering to them and raise up a grain offering. In these things should I take pleasure? 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:21You must not give any of your children to put them into the fire, so that you sacrifice them to Molech, because you must not profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

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

Deuteronomy 12:2You will surely destroy all the places where the nations that you will dispossess worshiped their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 16:3Instead, he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed, he made his son pass through the fire, following the detestable practices of the nations, which Yahweh had driven out before the people of Israel.

2 Kings 17:7This captivity happened because the people of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. The people had been worshiping other gods

2 Kings 23:10Josiah defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so that no one might cause his son or his daughter to pass through the fire as a sacrifice 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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