King James Version
Isaiah 57:7 in the King James Version says “Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 57 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.”
Isaiah 57:7 · KJV
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? with: or, among the oaks
Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: 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 lovedst their bed where thou sawest it. made: or, hewed it for thyself larger than theirs where: or, thou providedst room
And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell. thou: or, thou respectedst
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above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“and high”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
“hast thou set”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“thy bed”
H4904a bed (figuratively, a bier); abstractly, sleep; by euphemism, carnal intercourse
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“even thither wentest thou up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“sacrifice”
H2077properly, a slaughter, i.e., the flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice (the victim or the act)
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