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Isaiah 57:7

The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 57:7

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed. Instead of reserving thy marriage-bed for me, Jehovah (), thou hast set it up on those "high places," with which the hill-tops of Judaea are everywhere crowned (see ; ; ; :16, etc.

). Almost every hill-top is still, in a sense, held sacred in Palestine. Even thither wentest thou up, etc. (On the persistency of the Jews in maintaining the high-place worship, see ; ; ; ; ; ; , etc.

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