Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 65:3

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3. continually —answering to "all the day" ( Isaiah 65:2 ). God was continually inviting them, and they continually offending Him ( Deuteronomy 32:21 ). to my face —They made no attempt to hide their sin ( Isaiah 3:9 ). Compare " before Me" ( Isaiah 3:9- : ). in gardens —(See on Isaiah 3:9- : ; Isaiah 66:17 ; Leviticus 17:5 ). altars of brick — Hebrew, "bricks." God had commanded His altars to be of unhewn stone ( Exodus 20:25 ). This was in order to separate them, even in external respects, from idolaters; also, as all chiselling was forbidden, they could not inscribe superstitious symbols on them as the heathen did. Bricks were more easily so inscribed than stone; hence their use for the cuneiform inscriptions at Babylon, and also for idolatrous altars. Some, not so well, have supposed that the "bricks" here mean the flat brick-paved roofs of houses on which they sacrificed to the sun, c. ( 2 Kings 23:12 Jeremiah 19:13 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-4" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-isa-65-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/isa-65-3

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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