Burn Burning Clefts Cliffs Clifts Cracks Crags Death Desire Enflaming Evil Green Idols Inflame Inflamed Inflaming Kill Leafy Lust Luxuriant Oaks Overhanging Putting Ravines Rocks Sacrifice Slaughter Slaughtering Slay Slaying Spreading Terebinths Tree Valleys Yourselves
57:5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the {d} children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?
(d) Read Le 18:21, 2Ki 23:10.
57:5 Enflaming - Lusting after them, and mad upon them. Slaying - In way of sacrifice to their idols. Valleys - He seems to allude to the valley of Hinnom in which these cruelties were practised. Clifts - Which they chuse either for shade, or for those dark vaults, in rocks, which were convenient for idolatrous uses.
57:3-12 The Lord here calls apostates and hypocrites to appear before him. When reproved for their sins, and threatened with judgments, they ridiculed the word of God. The Jews were guilty of idolatry before the captivity; but not after that affliction. Their zeal in the worship of false gods, may shame our indifference in the worship of the true God. The service of sin is disgraceful slavery; those who thus debase themselves to hell, will justly have their portion there. Men incline to a religion that inflames their unholy passions. They are led to do any evil, however great or vile, if they think it will atone for crimes, or purchase indulgence for some favourite lust. This explains idolatry, whether pagan, Jewish, or antichristian. But those who set up anything instead of God, for their hope and confidence, never will come to a right end. Those who forsake the only right way, wander in a thousand by-paths. The pleasures of sin soon tire, but never satisfy. Those who care not for the word of God and his providences, show they have no fear of God. Sin profits not; it ruins and destroys.
Burn Burning Children Clefts Cliffs Clifts Cracks Crags Death Desire Evil Green Idols Inflame Inflamed Inflaming Kill Leafy Oaks Putting Ravines Rocks Sacrifice Slaughter Slaughtering Slay Slaying Spreading Terebinths Tree Valleys Yourselves
Burn Burning Children Clefts Cliffs Clifts Cracks Crags Death Desire Evil Green Idols Inflame Inflamed Inflaming Kill Leafy Oaks Putting Ravines Rocks Sacrifice Slaughter Slaughtering Slay Slaying Spreading Terebinths Tree Valleys Yourselves
