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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET
ISAIAH
CHAPTER 57
  5 Enflaming yourselves with aidols under every green tree, bslaying the cchildren in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

Footnotes
5a
1 Kgs. 14: 23 (22-23).
  23 For they also built them ahigh places, and bimages, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
2 Kgs. 16: 4 (2-4).
  4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the ahigh places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
b
IE participating in abominable cult sacrifices. Cp.:
Jer. 7: 31.
  31 And they have built the high places of aTophet, which is in the valley of the son of bHinnom, to cburn their sons and their daughters in the dfire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Jer. 32: 35.
  35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the afire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
c
Ezek. 16: 20.
  20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou asacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
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