OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 57:5

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you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

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Verse 5. Comfort. Hebrew “heat,” abandoning yourselves to shameful excesses.—Torrents, to avoid being seen. Such sacrifices would have been incredible, if the Scriptures, and all history did not prove their existence. Deuteronomy 12:31. Wisd. 12:3 and 4 Kennicott. 23:10.

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