Isaiah 65:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

graves. tombs. Hebrew. keber. App-35.

monuments. secret places. Probably in heathen temples.

eat swine's flesh. Reference to Pentateuch, where this was forbidden (Leviticus 11:7; Deuteronomy 14:8). App-92. Bones of swine were found at Gezer. See note on 1 Kings 9:15.

broth. The reference is to. sacrificial feast of unclean food.

abominable things. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 7:18; Leviticus 19:7). The Hebrew word (piggul) is found only in Ezekiel 4:14, beside these passages. App-92.

Isaiah 65:4

4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and brotha of abominable things is in their vessels;