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They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs. <a href="/nlt/isaiah/2.htm">New Living Translation</a> For the LORD has rejected his people, the descendants of Jacob, because they have filled their land with practices from the East and with sorcerers, as the Philistines do. They have made alliances with pagans. <a href="/esv/isaiah/2.htm">English Standard Version</a> For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. <a href="/bsb/isaiah/2.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners. <a href="/kjv/isaiah/2.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/isaiah/2.htm">New King James Version</a> For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways; They are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they are pleased with the children of foreigners. <a href="/nasb_/isaiah/2.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east, And they are soothsayers like the Philistines. They also strike bargains with the children of foreigners. <a href="/nasb/isaiah/2.htm">NASB 1995</a> For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east, And they are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners. <a href="/nasb77/isaiah/2.htm">NASB 1977 </a> For Thou hast abandoned Thy people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east, And they are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners. <a href="/lsb/isaiah/2.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east, And they are soothsayers like the Philistines, And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners. <a href="/amp/isaiah/2.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Most certainly [LORD] You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with influences from the east, And they are soothsayers [who foretell] like the Philistines; Also they strike bargains with the children of foreigners (pagans). <a href="/csb/isaiah/2.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> For you have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of divination from the East and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines. They are in league with foreigners. <a href="/hcsb/isaiah/2.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of divination from the East and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines. They are in league with foreigners. <a href="/asv/isaiah/2.htm">American Standard Version</a> For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. <a href="/cev/isaiah/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Our LORD, you have deserted your people, Israel, because they follow customs of nations from the east. They worship Philistine gods and are close friends of foreigners. <a href="/erv/isaiah/2.htm">English Revised Version</a> For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be filled with customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of strangers. <a href="/gwt/isaiah/2.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> LORD, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob, because they are filled with Eastern influences. They are fortunetellers like the Philistines, and they make deals with foreigners. <a href="/gnt/isaiah/2.htm">Good News Translation</a> O God, you have forsaken your people, the descendants of Jacob! The land is full of magic practices from the East and from Philistia. The people follow foreign customs. <a href="/isv/isaiah/2.htm">International Standard Version</a> For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with practices learned from the East and they are fortune-tellers like the Philistines. They cut deals with foreigners. <a href="/msb/isaiah/2.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners. <a href="/net/isaiah/2.htm">NET Bible</a> Indeed, O LORD, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. For diviners from the east are everywhere; they consult omen readers like the Philistines do. Plenty of foreigners are around. <a href="/nheb/isaiah/2.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners. <a href="/wbt/isaiah/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are replenished from the east, and are sooth-sayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. <a href="/web/isaiah/2.htm">World English Bible</a> For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/isaiah/2.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> For You have left Your people, the house of Jacob. For they have been filled from the east, "" And [are] sorcerers like the Philistines, "" And strike hands with the children of strangers. <a href="/ylt/isaiah/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> For Thou hast left Thy people, the house of Jacob. For they have been filled from the east, And are sorcerers like the Philistines, And with the children of strangers strike hands. <a href="/slt/isaiah/2.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For thou didst cast out thy people the house of Jacob, for they were filled from the east, and practicing magic as the rovers, and they will strike hands with the children of strangers.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/isaiah/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob: because they are filled as in times past, and have had soothsayers as the Philistines, and have adhered to strange children. <a href="/cpdv/isaiah/2.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> For you have cast aside your people, the house of Jacob, because they have been filled up, as in past times, and because they have had soothsayers as the Philistines have, and because they have joined themselves to foreign servants. <a href="/nabre/isaiah/2.htm">New American Bible</a> You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob! Because they are filled with diviners, and soothsayers, like the Philistines; with foreigners they clasp hands. <a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> For you have forsaken the ways of your people, O house of Jacob. Indeed they are full of diviners from the east and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with foreigners.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/2.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are self-satisfied as in the olden days, and they practice augury like the Philistines, and they have reared many alien children. <a href="/hpbt/isaiah/2.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Because you have forsaken your people of the house of Yaqob, because they were full like that of former time, and they practice divination like the Philistines, and they have raised a multitude of estranged children<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/isaiah/2.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> For Thou hast forsaken Thy people the house of Jacob; For they are replenished from the east, And with soothsayers like the Philistines, And they please themselves in the brood of aliens. <a href="/sep/isaiah/2.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their land is filled as at the beginning with divinations, as the land of the Philistines, and many strange children were born to them. <a href="/parallel/isaiah/2-6.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=408" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/isaiah/2.htm">The Day of Reckoning</a> 5Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD. 6<a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">For</a> <a href="/hebrew/5203.htm" title="5203: nā·ṭaš·tāh (V-Qal-Perf-2ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to pound, i.e. Smite; by implication to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out or upon.">You have abandoned</a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: ‘am·mə·ḵā (N-msc:: 2ms) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">Your people,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bêṯ (N-msc) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">the house</a> <a href="/hebrew/3290.htm" title="3290: ya·‘ă·qōḇ (N-proper-ms) -- A son of Isaac, also his desc. From aqab; heel-catcher; Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch.">of Jacob,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">because</a> <a href="/hebrew/4390.htm" title="4390: mā·lə·’ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To be full, to fill. Or malae; a primitive root, to fill or be full of, in a wide application.">they are filled</a> <a href="/hebrew/6924.htm" title="6924: miq·qe·ḏem (Prep-m:: N-ms) -- The front, of place, time. Or qedmah; from qadam; the front, of place or time; often used adverbially.">with influences from the east;</a> <a href="/hebrew/6049.htm" title="6049: wə·‘ō·nə·nîm (Conj-w:: V-Piel-Prtcpl-mp) -- A primitive root; to cover; used only as a denominative from anan, to cloud over; figuratively, to act covertly, i.e. Practise magic.">they are soothsayers</a> <a href="/hebrew/6430.htm" title="6430: kap·pə·liš·tîm (Prep-k, Art:: N-proper-mp) -- Inhab. of Philistia. Patrial from Plesheth; a Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth.">like the Philistines;</a> <a href="/hebrew/5606.htm" title="5606: yaś·pî·qū (V-Hifil-Imperf-3mp) -- Or saphaq; a primitive root; to clap the hands; by implication of satisfaction, to be enough; by implication of excess, to vomit.">they strike hands</a> <a href="/hebrew/3206.htm" title="3206: ū·ḇə·yal·ḏê (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-mpc) -- Child, son, boy, youth. From yalad; something born, i.e. A lad or offspring.">with the children</a> <a href="/hebrew/5237.htm" title="5237: nā·ḵə·rîm (Adj-mp) -- Foreign, alien. From neker; strange, in a variety of degrees and applications.">of foreigners.</a> 7Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-9.htm">Deuteronomy 18:9-14</a> When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. / Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, / casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead. ... <a href="/2_kings/17-8.htm">2 Kings 17:8-17</a> and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. / The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities. / They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. ... <a href="/2_chronicles/33-2.htm">2 Chronicles 33:2-9</a> And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. / For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven. / Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.” ... <a href="/jeremiah/10-2.htm">Jeremiah 10:2-3</a> This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them. / For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman. <a href="/micah/5-12.htm">Micah 5:12-14</a> I will cut the sorceries from your hand, and you will have no fortune-tellers. / I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands. / I will root out the Asherah poles from your midst and demolish your cities. <a href="/leviticus/19-31.htm">Leviticus 19:31</a> You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. <a href="/1_kings/14-24.htm">1 Kings 14:24</a> There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. <a href="/2_kings/16-3.htm">2 Kings 16:3</a> Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. <a href="/2_kings/21-6.htm">2 Kings 21:6</a> He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. <a href="/2_chronicles/28-3.htm">2 Chronicles 28:3</a> Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. <a href="/2_chronicles/33-6.htm">2 Chronicles 33:6</a> He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. <a href="/acts/19-19.htm">Acts 19:19</a> And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas. <a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19-21</a> The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. <a href="/ephesians/5-11.htm">Ephesians 5:11-12</a> Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. / For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. <a href="/colossians/2-8.htm">Colossians 2:8</a> See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Therefore you have forsaken your 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.therefore<a href="/deuteronomy/31-16.htm">Deuteronomy 31:16,17</a> And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them… <a href="/2_chronicles/15-2.htm">2 Chronicles 15:2</a> And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.<a href="/2_chronicles/24-20.htm">2 Chronicles 24:20</a> And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.from the east.<a href="/numbers/23-7.htm">Numbers 23:7</a> And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.and are<a href="/isaiah/8-19.htm">Isaiah 8:19</a> And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?<a href="/isaiah/47-12.htm">Isaiah 47:12,13</a> Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail… <a href="/exodus/22-18.htm">Exodus 22:18</a> Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.and they<a href="/exodus/34-16.htm">Exodus 34:16</a> And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.<a href="/numbers/25-1.htm">Numbers 25:1,2</a> And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab… <a href="/deuteronomy/21-11.htm">Deuteronomy 21:11-13</a> And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; … please themselves in.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/78-60.htm">Abandoned</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-7.htm">Aliens</a> <a href="/psalms/41-9.htm">Ally</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-17.htm">Arts</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/18-10.htm">Auguries</a> <a href="/job/39-30.htm">Brood</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/11-10.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-4.htm">Children</a> <a href="/job/41-17.htm">Clasp</a> <a href="/psalms/110-6.htm">Countries</a> <a href="/psalms/106-35.htm">Customs</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-17.htm">Divination</a> <a href="/1_samuel/6-2.htm">Diviners</a> <a href="/psalms/107-3.htm">East</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-16.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-5.htm">Family</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Filled</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-7.htm">Foreigners</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-4.htm">Forsaken</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-23.htm">Friends</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Full</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-15.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-5.htm">House</a> <a href="/job/38-31.htm">Influences</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-5.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/psalms/83-7.htm">Philistines</a> <a href="/songs/8-4.htm">Please</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/8-8.htm">Practice</a> <a href="/proverbs/1-30.htm">Rejected</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-25.htm">Replenished</a> <a href="/songs/2-14.htm">Secret</a> <a href="/1_samuel/28-3.htm">Soothsayers</a> <a href="/micah/5-12.htm">Sooth-Sayers</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-7.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-7.htm">Strangers</a> <a href="/proverbs/23-14.htm">Strike</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-3.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">Use</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-3.htm">Ways</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/10-14.htm">Abandoned</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-1.htm">Aliens</a> <a href="/isaiah/48-14.htm">Ally</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-2.htm">Arts</a> <a href="/leviticus/19-26.htm">Auguries</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-15.htm">Brood</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-20.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-4.htm">Children</a> <a href="/job/41-17.htm">Clasp</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-13.htm">Countries</a> <a href="/jeremiah/10-3.htm">Customs</a> <a href="/jeremiah/14-14.htm">Divination</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-25.htm">Diviners</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-12.htm">East</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-9.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-13.htm">Family</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-7.htm">Filled</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-2.htm">Foreigners</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-12.htm">Forsaken</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-9.htm">Friends</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-7.htm">Full</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-8.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-6.htm">House</a> <a href="/james/1-21.htm">Influences</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-17.htm">Jacob</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-12.htm">Philistines</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-3.htm">Please</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-6.htm">Practice</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-24.htm">Rejected</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-2.htm">Replenished</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-2.htm">Secret</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-19.htm">Soothsayers</a> <a href="/daniel/2-27.htm">Sooth-Sayers</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-13.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-17.htm">Strangers</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-14.htm">Strike</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-8.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-3.htm">Use</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-10.htm">Ways</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 2</div>1. <a href="/isaiah/2-1.htm">Isaiah prophesies the coming of Christ's kingdom</a> 6. <a href="/isaiah/2-6.htm">Wickedness is the cause of God's forsaking</a> 10. <a href="/isaiah/2-10.htm">He exhorts to fear, because of the powerful effects of God's majesty</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Historically, this reflects periods when Israel turned away from God, leading to consequences such as invasions and exiles. Theologically, it underscores the covenant relationship between God and Israel, where disobedience leads to divine discipline. This abandonment is not permanent but serves as a call to repentance.because they are filled with influences from the east The "influences from the east" likely refer to the adoption of pagan practices and ideologies from neighboring eastern nations such as Assyria and Babylon. These influences included idolatry and astrology, which were contrary to the worship of Yahweh. This reflects a broader biblical theme where Israel is warned against adopting the customs of surrounding nations (<a href="/deuteronomy/18-9.htm">Deuteronomy 18:9-14</a>).they are soothsayers like the Philistines Soothsaying, or divination, was a practice condemned in the Mosaic Law (<a href="/leviticus/19-26.htm">Leviticus 19:26</a>). The Philistines, known for their pagan practices, serve as a negative comparison, highlighting Israel's spiritual decline. This phrase emphasizes the syncretism that had infiltrated Israelite society, where they adopted practices from their enemies, contrary to God's commands.they strike hands with the children of foreigners "Striking hands" implies making agreements or alliances, often with pagan nations, which God had warned against (<a href="/exodus/23-32.htm">Exodus 23:32</a>). This phrase suggests political and social alliances that led to spiritual compromise. Such alliances often resulted in Israel adopting foreign gods and practices, leading to further estrangement from God. This reflects a recurring biblical theme where reliance on foreign powers rather than God leads to downfall (<a href="/isaiah/31.htm">Isaiah 31:1</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/t/the_house_of_jacob.htm">The House of Jacob</a> Refers to the descendants of Jacob, also known as Israel. This term is often used to denote the nation of Israel as a whole. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_east.htm">The East</a> This likely refers to regions east of Israel, such as Babylon and Assyria, known for their mystical and superstitious practices. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_philistines.htm">The Philistines</a> A neighboring people of Israel, often in conflict with them. They were known for their pagan practices, including divination. 4. <a href="/topical/f/foreigners.htm">Foreigners</a> This term refers to non-Israelite nations and peoples, often associated with pagan practices and beliefs. 5. <a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a> A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah's ministry was primarily to the Kingdom of Judah. He warned of judgment and called for repentance.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/r/rejection_due_to_idolatry.htm">Rejection Due to Idolatry</a> God’s rejection of His people in this verse is a direct result of their idolatry and adoption of pagan practices. This serves as a warning against compromising faith with worldly practices. <a href="/topical/i/influence_of_surrounding_cultures.htm">Influence of Surrounding Cultures</a> The Israelites were influenced by the cultures around them, leading them away from God. Christians today must be vigilant about the influences of secular culture on their faith. <a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_syncretism.htm">The Danger of Syncretism</a> Mixing true worship with pagan practices leads to spiritual decay. Believers are called to maintain purity in their worship and devotion to God. <a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_return.htm">Repentance and Return</a> Despite the rejection, God’s desire is for His people to repent and return to Him. This is a call to examine our lives and turn away from anything that leads us away from God. <a href="/topical/c/community_accountability.htm">Community Accountability</a> The community of believers must hold each other accountable to prevent the infiltration of ungodly practices and beliefs.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_2.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 2</a> <a href="/q/does_idol_use_undermine_isaiah's_reform.htm">Isaiah 2:6–8 condemns idolatry among the people of Judah, yet archaeological findings show idol use throughout Israelite history; does this undermine the text’s portrayal of reform? </a> <a href="/q/why_is_israel_a_woman_in_isaiah_54.htm">In Isaiah 54, why does the text consistently personify Israel as a woman if the prophecy supposedly extends beyond literal national boundaries?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_isaiah_56_6-7_fit_earlier_covenants.htm">How does Isaiah 56:6-7 reconcile with verses that depict Israel's exclusive covenant in earlier chapters of Isaiah?</a> <a href="/q/is_there_evidence_of_isaiah's_land_ruin.htm">Isaiah 1:7 describes a land devoured by foreigners; is there historical or archaeological evidence confirming such devastation at the time of Isaiah?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/2.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(6) Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people . . .--Better, For Thou hast . . . This was the sad, dark present, in contrast with the bright future. Jehovah "went not forth" with the armies of Judah (<a href="/psalms/68-7.htm" title="O God, when you went forth before your people, when you did march through the wilderness; Selah:">Psalm 68:7</a>); and the Syrians, Edomites, and Philistines, possibly the Assyrians also (<a href="/2_kings/16-9.htm" title="And the king of Assyria listened to him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.">2Kings 16:9</a>; <a href="/context/2_chronicles/28-17.htm" title="For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.">2Chronicles 28:17-20</a>), were laying the lands waste.Because they be replenished from the east.--The disasters of the time are viewed as chastisements for sin, and the sin consisted in casting off their national allegiance to Jehovah. The "east," from which they were replenished, with which they filled their thoughts and life, was Syria and Mesopotamia, to whose influence they had yielded, and whose cultus Ahaz had adopted (<a href="/context/2_kings/16-10.htm" title="And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.">2Kings 16:10-12</a>).And are soothsayers like the Philistines.--Literally, cloud-diviners. The word points to the claim of being "storm-raisers," which has been in all ages one of the boasts of sorcerers. The conquests of Uzziah (<a href="/2_chronicles/26-6.htm" title="And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.">2Chronicles 26:6</a>) had brought Judah into contact with the Philistines, and the oracles at Ekron and elsewhere (<a href="/2_kings/1-2.htm" title="And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go, inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.">2Kings 1:2</a>) attracted the people of Judah. There was, as it were, a mania for divination, and the "diviners" of Philistia (<a href="/1_samuel/6-2.htm" title="And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us with which we shall send it to his place.">1Samuel 6:2</a>) found imitators among the people of Jehovah. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/2.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 6. - Therefore; rather, for. The prophet, in calling upon Israel to "walk in the light of the Lord," implies that they are not so walking. He then proceeds to give the reasons of this. They are not, "for God has forsaken them, or, cast them off." The first reason is because they be replenished from the east (Revised Version, "they be filled with customs from the east); i.e. they have adopted a number of Syrian, Assyrian, and Ammonite superstitions; e.g. high places, images, and "groves," the burning of their children in honor of Moloch, the use of divination and enchantment, etc. (<a href="/2_kings/15-4.htm">2 Kings 15:4</a>; <a href="/2_kings/16-3.htm">2 Kings 16:3, 4</a>; <a href="/2_kings/17-10.htm">2 Kings 17:10-12, 16, 17</a>, etc.). Most of these practices reached the Israelites from Syria, though many had their origin either in Assyria or Babylonia. Soothsayers, like the Philistines. The "diviners" of the Philistines are mentioned in <a href="/1_samuel/6-2.htm">1 Samuel 6:2</a>. By the word here employed, it would seem that they foretold the future from observations on the clouds and the general appearance of the sky. During the reign of Uzziah, the Israelites had been brought into closer contact with the Philistines than usual, through his conquest of several of their cities (<a href="/2_chronicles/26-6.htm">2 Chronicles 26:6</a>). They please themselves in the children of strangers; literally, strike hands with the children of strangers (comp. <a href="/job/27-23.htm">Job 27:23</a>). This is thought to refer to striking hands upon a bargain (Cheyne), and to be an allusion to the commercial activity of the reigns of Uzziah and Jotham (<a href="/2_kings/14-22.htm">2 Kings 14:22</a>; <a href="/2_kings/16-6.htm">2 Kings 16:6</a>). But perhaps it does not mean more than familiarity. <a href="/commentaries/isaiah/2-6.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>For כִּ֣י (kî) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction You have abandoned נָטַ֗שְׁתָּה (nā·ṭaš·tāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5203.htm">Strong's 5203: </a> To pound, smite, to disperse, to thrust off, down, out, upon Your people, עַמְּךָ֙ (‘am·mə·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock the house בֵּ֣ית (bêṯ) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> A house of Jacob, יַעֲקֹ֔ב (ya·‘ă·qōḇ) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3290.htm">Strong's 3290: </a> Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc because כִּ֤י (kî) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction they are filled מָלְאוּ֙ (mā·lə·’ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4390.htm">Strong's 4390: </a> To fill, be full of [with influences] from the east; מִקֶּ֔דֶם (miq·qe·ḏem) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6924.htm">Strong's 6924: </a> The front, of place, time they are soothsayers וְעֹֽנְנִ֖ים (wə·‘ō·nə·nîm) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6049.htm">Strong's 6049: </a> To act covertly, practise magic like the Philistines; כַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים (kap·pə·liš·tîm) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6430.htm">Strong's 6430: </a> Philistines -- inhabitants of Philistia they strike [hands] יַשְׂפִּֽיקוּ׃ (yaś·pî·qū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5606.htm">Strong's 5606: </a> To clap the hands, of satisfaction, to be enough, of excess, to vomit with the children וּבְיַלְדֵ֥י (ū·ḇə·yal·ḏê) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3206.htm">Strong's 3206: </a> Something born, a lad, offspring of foreigners. נָכְרִ֖ים (nā·ḵə·rîm) Adjective - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5237.htm">Strong's 5237: </a> Foreign, alien <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/2-6.htm">Isaiah 2:6 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/isaiah/2-6.htm">Isaiah 2:6 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/isaiah/2-6.htm">Isaiah 2:6 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/isaiah/2-6.htm">Isaiah 2:6 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/isaiah/2-6.htm">Isaiah 2:6 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/2-6.htm">Isaiah 2:6 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/2-6.htm">Isaiah 2:6 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/2-6.htm">Isaiah 2:6 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/2-6.htm">Isaiah 2:6 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/isaiah/2-6.htm">Isaiah 2:6 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-6.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 2:6 For you have forsaken your people (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/2-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 2:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 2:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/2-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 2:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 2:7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>