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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 up burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to sport. (Ex. 32:6)
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Num. 25:1‑2,6• 1And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab.
2And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.
6And behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought a Midianitish woman to his brethren, in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of the whole assembly of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the entrance of the tent of meeting.
(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 a land of graven images, and they are mad after frightful idols. (Jer. 50:38)
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Jer. 51:7• 7Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore have the nations become mad. (Jer. 51:7)
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Hos. 4:11‑13• 11Fornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.
12My people ask counsel of their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms causeth 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 oak and poplar and terebinth, because the shade thereof is good; therefore your daughters play the harlot and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
(Hos. 4:11‑13)
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Hos. 7:4‑7• 4They all practise adultery, as an oven heated by the baker: he ceaseth from stirring the fire after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
5In the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine: he stretched out his hand to scorners.
6For they have applied their heart like an oven to their lying in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth like a flaming fire.
7They are all hot as an oven, and devour 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• 7panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning 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 by every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and they drink in the house of their God the wine of the condemned.
(Amos 2:7‑8)
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Rev. 17:1‑5• 1And one of the seven angels, which had the seven bowls, came and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will shew thee the sentence of the great harlot who sits upon the many waters;
2with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and they that dwell on the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3And he carried me away in spirit to a desert; and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and had ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication;
5and upon her forehead a name written, Mystery, great Babylon, the mother of the harlots, and of the abominations of the earth.
(Rev. 17:1‑5)
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Rev. 18:3• 3because all the nations have drunk of the wine of the fury of her fornication; and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have been enriched through the might of her luxury. (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 dispossess have 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• 23And they also built for themselves high places, and columns, and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree; (1 Kings 14:23)
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2 Kings 16:3‑4• 3but walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even caused his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel.
4And he sacrificed and burned incense on 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 columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree; (2 Kings 17:10)
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Jer. 2:20• 20For of old thou hast broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not serve. For upon every high hill, and under every green tree, thou bowest down, playing the harlot. (Jer. 2:20)
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Jer. 3:6,13• 6And Jehovah said unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel hath done? She hath gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath committed fornication.
13Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast turned thy ways hither and thither to the strangers under every green tree; and ye have not hearkened to my voice, saith Jehovah.
(Jer. 3:6,13)
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Jer. 17:2• 2whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherahs, by the green trees, upon the high hills. (Jer. 17:2)
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Ezek. 6:13• 13And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when their slain shall be among their idols, round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick terebinth, the places where they offered sweet savour to all their idols. (Ezek. 6:13)
slaying.
Lev. 18:21• 21And thou shalt not give of thy seed to let them pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah. (Lev. 18:21)
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Lev. 20:2‑5• 2Thou shalt say also to the children of Israel, Every one of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech, shall certainly 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, so as to make my sanctuary unclean, and to profane my holy name.
4And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, that they 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 walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even caused his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed 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 sons of Hinnom, that no man might cause his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. (2 Kings 23:10)
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2 Chron. 28:3• 3and he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel. (2 Chron. 28:3)
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Jer. 7:31• 31And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not, neither did it come up into my mind. (Jer. 7:31)
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Jer. 32:35• 35and they have built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause to pass through the fire their sons and their daughters 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• 20And thou didst take thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hadst borne unto me, and these didst thou sacrifice unto them, to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter, (Ezek. 16:20)
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Ezek. 20:26,31• 26and I defiled them by their own gifts, in that they devoted all that opened the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.
31And when ye offer your gifts, making your sons to pass through the fire, ye defile 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 Jehovah, 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."