8Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
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And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. …
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: …
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. …
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-12)We have here a high charge, but a just one no doubt, drawn up against that wicked generation out of which God’s righteous ones were removed, because the world was not worthy of them. Observe, I. The general character here given of them, or the name and title by which they stand indicted, Isa. 57:3. They are told to draw near and hear the charge, are set to the bar, and arraigned there as sons of t…
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