Isaiah 57:8

Behind the door and the doorposts you set up your symbols; 1 you deserted me, made yourselves naked, and went up; you made your bed wide. 1 You made a covenant with them; you loved their beds; you saw their private parts. 1

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In The King James Version

Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.

In Context

7You prepared your bed on a high mountain; 1 you also went up there to offer sacrifices. 1

9You went to Molech with oil; you multiplied perfumes. + 57:9 Instead of to Molech , some versions have to the king . 1 You send your ambassadors far away; you went down to Sheol. 1

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Cross References

Ezekiel 8:8He said to me, “Son of man, dig into this wall.” So I dug into the wall, and there was a door.

Ezekiel 16:32You adulterous woman, you accept strangers instead of your husband.

Ezekiel 23:41There you sat on a beautiful bed and at a table arranged before it where you placed my incense and my oil.

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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