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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 57:8 - 57:8
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“Remembrance,” that is, memorials of thy idolatry: the objects which thou holdest in remembrance. They hung up household tutelary gods “behind the doors”; the very place where God has directed them to write His laws “on the posts and gates” (Deu 6:9; Deu 11:20); a curse, too, was pronounced on putting up an image “in a secret place” (Deu 27:15).
discovered thyself - image from an adulteress.
enlarged ... bed - so as to receive the more paramours.
made ... covenant - with idols: in open violation of thy “covenant” with God (Exo 19:5; Exo 23:32). Or, “hast made assignations with them for thyself” [Horsley].
thy bed ... their bed - The Jews’ sin was twofold; they resorted to places of idolatry (“their bed”), and they received idols into the temple of God (“thy bed”).
where - rather, “ever since that” [Horsley]. The Hebrew for “where” means “room” (Margin), a place; therefore, translate, “thou hast provided a place for it” (for “their bed”), namely, by admitting idolatrous altars in thy land [Barnes]; or “thou choosest a (convenient) place for thyself” in their bed [Maurer] (Isa 56:5).