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You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your ambassadors far off, and did debase yourself even to Sheol.
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Forsaking God is Adultery
Commentators explain that Isaiah uses the powerful metaphor of an unfaithful wife. Instead of being loyal to God, Israel is depicted as a harlot who adorns herself with "oil" and "perfumes" to court foreign kings. This imagery powerfully illustrates that seeking security in worldly powers rather than in God is a profound act of spiritual adultery and betrayal.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And you went to the king — Margin, ‘Respected.’ Jerome renders this, ‘You have adorned yourself with royal ointment, and have m…
19th Century
Anglican
You went to the king ... —The alteration of a single letter would give to Molech; and this may be the meaning ev…
Baptist
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 love…
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16th Century
Protestant
And thou wentest to the king with ointment. Here the Prophet censures another vice closely allied with the former. For ungodliness begets …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you went to the king with ointment To the kings of the earth, the singular for the plural, with whom the whore of Rome has…
The Lord here calls apostates and hypocrites to appear before him. When reproved for their sins, and threatened with judgments, they ridiculed the …
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13th Century
Catholic
The just perishes. Here the prophet shows the difference between those who obey God’s counsels and those who do not, conc…
