Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Isaiah 57:5

Context
NETBible

you who practice ritual sex 1  under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs. 2 

XREF

Ex 32:6; Le 18:21; Le 20:2-5; Nu 25:1,2,6; De 12:2; 1Ki 14:23; 2Ki 16:3,4; 2Ki 16:3; 2Ki 17:10; 2Ki 23:10; 2Ch 28:3; Isa 1:29; Jer 2:20; Jer 3:6,13; Jer 7:31; Jer 17:2; Jer 32:35; Jer 50:38; Jer 51:7; Eze 6:13; Eze 16:20; Eze 20:26,31; Ho 4:11-13; Ho 7:4-7; Am 2:7,8; Re 17:1-5; Re 18:3

NET © Notes

tn Heb “inflame yourselves”; NRSV “burn with lust.” This verse alludes to the practice of ritual sex that accompanied pagan fertility rites.

sn This apparently alludes to the practice of child sacrifice (cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).



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