Isaiah 66:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

gardens. Compare Isaiah 1:29, and Isaiah 65:3.

tree: i.e. the Asherah.

tree, &c. See notes on next page.

abomination. Hebrew. shakaz. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 7:2). Occurs in Isaiah only here; Leviticus thirteen times (Isaiah 7:2; Isaiah 11:9; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 11:13; Isaiah 11:13, Isa 11:20, Isa 11:23, Isa 11:41, Isa 11:42, Isa 11:43. Isa 20:25); and Ezekiel 8:10. Not the same word as in Isaiah 65:4. App-92.

mouse. Reference to Pentateuch, where it is forbidden (Leviticus 11:29). App-92. Elsewhere, only in 1 Samuel 6:4; 1 Samuel 6:6 1 Samuel 6:11, 1 Samuel 6:18.

be consumed. come to an end.

Isaiah 66:17

17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behindd one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.