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Isaiah 57

Isa. 57:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Enflaming
chamam (Hebrew #2552)
to be hot (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: enflame self, get (have) heat, be (wax) hot, (be, wax) warm (self, at).
Pronounce: khaw-mam'
Origin: a primitive root
yourselves ρwith idols
'el (Hebrew #410)
strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity)
KJV usage: God (god), X goodly, X great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong. Compare names in "-el."
Pronounce: ale
Origin: shortened from 352
k under every green
ra`anan (Hebrew #7488)
verdant; by analogy, new; figuratively, prosperous
KJV usage: green, flourishing.
Pronounce: rah-an-awn'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be green
tree
`ets (Hebrew #6086)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
KJV usage: + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
Pronounce: ates
Origin: from 6095
, slaying
shachat (Hebrew #7819)
to slaughter (in sacrifice or massacre)
KJV usage: kill, offer, shoot out, slay, slaughter.
Pronounce: shaw-khat'
Origin: a primitive root
l the children
yeled (Hebrew #3206)
something born, i.e. a lad or offspring
KJV usage: boy, child, fruit, son, young man (one).
Pronounce: yeh'-led
Origin: from 3205
in the valleys
nachal (Hebrew #5158)
or nachalah (Ezekiel 47:19; 48:28) {nakh-al-aw'}; from 5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
Pronounce: nakh'-al
Origin: or (feminine) nachlah (Psalm 124:4) {nakh'-law}
under the clifts
ca`iyph (Hebrew #5585)
a fissure (of rocks); also a bough (as subdivided)
KJV usage: (outmost) branch, clift, top.
Pronounce: saw-eef'
Origin: from 5586
of the rocks
cela` (Hebrew #5553)
a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
KJV usage: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
Pronounce: seh'-lah
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be lofty
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Inflaming.
Ex. 32:6• 6And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. (Ex. 32:6)
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Num. 25:1‑2,6• 1And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
2And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
6And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
(Num. 25:1‑2,6)
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Jer. 50:38• 38A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. (Jer. 50:38)
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Jer. 51:7• 7Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. (Jer. 51:7)
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Hos. 4:11‑13• 11Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
12My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
(Hos. 4:11‑13)
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Hos. 7:4‑7• 4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
5In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
7They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
(Hos. 7:4‑7)
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Amos 2:7‑8• 7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
8And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
(Amos 2:7‑8)
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Rev. 17:1‑5• 1And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
(Rev. 17:1‑5)
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Rev. 18:3• 3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. (Rev. 18:3)
with idols.
or, among the oaks.
under.
Deut. 12:2• 2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: (Deut. 12:2)
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1 Kings 14:23• 23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree. (1 Kings 14:23)
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2 Kings 16:3‑4• 3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
(2 Kings 16:3‑4)
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2 Kings 17:10• 10And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: (2 Kings 17:10)
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Jer. 2:20• 20For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. (Jer. 2:20)
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Jer. 3:6,13• 6The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
13Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.
(Jer. 3:6,13)
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Jer. 17:2• 2Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. (Jer. 17:2)
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Ezek. 6:13• 13Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savor to all their idols. (Ezek. 6:13)
slaying.
Lev. 18:21• 21And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord. (Lev. 18:21)
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Lev. 20:2‑5• 2Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
3And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
4And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
5Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
(Lev. 20:2‑5)
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2 Kings 16:3• 3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel. (2 Kings 16:3)
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2 Kings 23:10• 10And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. (2 Kings 23:10)
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2 Chron. 28:3• 3Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. (2 Chron. 28:3)
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Jer. 7:31• 31And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. (Jer. 7:31)
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Jer. 32:35• 35And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. (Jer. 32:35)
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Ezek. 16:20• 20Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, (Ezek. 16:20)
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Ezek. 20:26,31• 26And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.
31For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you.
(Ezek. 20:26,31)

J. N. Darby Translation

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inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleysc under the clefts of the rocks?

JND Translation Notes

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Or "torrents."