Adam Clarke Commentary - Isaiah 57:8

Adam Clarke Commentary - Isaiah 57:8 - 57:8

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Isaiah 57:8 - 57:8

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57:1 - 57:1
57:2 - 57:2
57:6 - 57:6
57:8 - 57:8
57:9 - 57:9
57:10 - 57:10
57:11 - 57:11
57:12 - 57:12
57:13 - 57:13
57:14 - 57:14
57:15 - 57:15
57:16 - 57:16
57:17 - 57:17
57:18 - 57:18
57:19 - 57:19
57:21 - 57:21

Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance “Behind the door, and the door-posts, hast thou set up thy memorial” - That is, the image of their tutelary gods, or something dedicated to them; in direct opposition to the law of God, which commanded them to write upon the door-posts of their house, and upon their gates, the words of God’s law; Deu 6:9; Deu 11:20. If they chose for them such a situation as more private, it was in defiance of a particular curse denounced in the law against the man who should make a graven or a molten image, and put it in a secret place; Deu 27:15. An ancient MS., with another, has אחר achar, without the conjunction ו vau, and.