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Isaiah 2:6 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 2 · verse 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.Isaiah 2:6 · King James Version
Isaiah 2:6 in context
4And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6Therefore 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.
7Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- replenishedmâlêʼto fill or be full of, in a wide applicationH4390 →
- soothsayersʻânanfiguratively, to act covertlyH6049 →
- PhilistinesPᵉlishtîya Pelishtite or inhabitant of PeleshethH6430 →
- forsakennâṭashproperly, to poundH5203 →
- childrenyeledsomething bornH3206 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
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The calling in of the Gentiles was accompanied with the rejection of the Jews; it was their fall, and the diminishing of them, that was the riches of the Gentiles; and the casting off of them was the reconciling of the world (Rom 11:12-15);
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-9