The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks:Isaiah 65:3 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThat sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick "Sacrificing in the gardens, and burning incense on the tiles" - These are instances of heathenish superstition, and idolatrous practices, to which the Jews were immoderately addicted before the Babylonish captivity. The heathen worshipped their idols in groves; whereas God, in opposition to this species of idolatry, commanded his people, when they should come into the promised land, to destroy all the places wherein the Canaanites had served their gods, and in particular to burn their groves with fire, Deuteronomy 12:2, Deuteronomy 12:3. These apostate Jews sacrificed upon altars built of bricks; in opposition to the command of God in regard to his altar, which was to be of unhewn stone, Exodus 20:26. Et pro uno altari, quod impolitis lapidibus Dei erat lege constructum, coctos lateres et agrorum cespites hostiarum sanguine cruentabant. "And instead of one altar which, according to the law of God, was, to be constructed of unhewn stones, they stained the bricks and turfs of the fields with the blood of their victims." Hieron. in loc. Or it means, perhaps, that they sacrificed upon the roofs of their houses, which were always flat, and paved with brick, or tile, or plaster of terrace. An instance of this idolatrous practice we find in 2 Kings 23:12, where it is said that Josiah "beat down the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made." See also Zephaniah 1:5. Sir John Chardin's MS. note on this place of Isaiah is as follows: "Ainsi font tous les Gentiles, sur les lieux eleves, et sur les terrasses, appellez latcres, pareeque sont faits de briq." "Who dwell in the sepulchres, and lodge in the caverns," for the purposes of necromancy and divination; to obtain dreams and revelations. Another instance of heathenish superstition: so Virgil: -
Huc dona sacerdos
Cum tulit, et caesarum ovium sub nocte silenti
Pellibus incubuit stratis, somnosque petivit:
Multa modis simulacra videt volitantia miris,
Et varias audit voces, fruiturque deorum
Colloquio, atque imis Acheronta affatur Avernis.
Aen. 7:86. - L.
"Here in distress the Italian nations come,
Anxious, to clear their doubts, and learn their doom.
First, on the fleeces of the slaughtered sheep,
By night the sacred priest dissolves in sleep:
When in a train, before his slumbering eye,
Thin airy forms and wondrous visions fly.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
a people
Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD...
Deuteronomy 32:16-19,21 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger...
2 Kings 17:14-17 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers...
2 Kings 22:17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods...
Psalm 78:40,58 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!...
Jeremiah 32:30-35 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth...
Ezekiel 8:17,18 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man...
Matthew 23:32-36 Fill you up then the measure of your fathers...
to my face
Job 1:11 But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.
Job 2:5 But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.
that sacrificeth
Isaiah 1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens that you have chosen.
Isaiah 66:17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the middle, eating swine's flesh...
Leviticus 17:5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field...
Jeremiah 3:6 The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done?...
Ezekiel 20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill...
altars. Heb. bricks
Exodus 20:24,25 An altar of earth you shall make to me, and shall sacrifice thereon your burnt offerings, and your peace offerings, your sheep...
Exodus 30:1-10 And you shall make an altar to burn incense on: of shittim wood shall you make it...
Isaiah 65:3 Parallel Commentaries
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