Isaiah 2:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Therefore. Or, For.

replenished: or, full of divinations.

from the east. Especially diviners and mediums from an evil spirit (an ob). Compare Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:6; Deuteronomy 18:11; 1 Samuel 28:3-7. and below, Isaiah 8:9; Isaiah 19:3; Isaiah 29:4, where ob occurs.

soothsayers. Reference to Pentateuch Leviticus 19:26 (observe times). Deuteronomy 18:10; Deuteronomy 18:14 (observers of times). Same word in all four cases. Hebrew. 'anan. Occurs only here in the "former" portion, and only in Isaiah 57:3 (sorceress) in the "latter" portion.

please themselves. join hands with.

children. young children.

strangers. Hebrew. nakar. unknown persons; hence, foreigners.

Isaiah 2:6

6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.