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Chinese Union (Simplified)

以赛亚书 57:3

你 们 这 些 巫 婆 的 儿 子 , 奸 夫 和 妓 女 的 种 子 , 都 要 前 来 !

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Idolatry;   Thompson Chain Reference - Heredity;   Offspring;   Parent's Sins;   Seed of the Wicked;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - Idolatry;   Profit;   Sacrifice;   Vanity;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Scorning and Mocking;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Son;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Divination;   Magic;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Poverty;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Manasseh (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Micah, Book of;   Righteousness;   Servant of the Lord;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Adultery ;   Soothsaying;   Sorcery;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Adultery;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Enchantment;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Art, Attitude of Judaism toward;   Chastity;   Divination;   High Place;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
但你們這些巫婦的兒子,姦夫和妓女的後裔啊!你們都走近這裡行姦淫吧!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

draw: Isaiah 45:20, Joel 3:9-11

sons: Genesis 3:15, Hosea 1:2, Matthew 3:7, Matthew 12:34, Matthew 16:4, Matthew 23:33, Luke 3:7, John 8:40-44, James 4:4, 1 John 3:10, Revelation 17:1-5

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 23:2 - General Deuteronomy 31:16 - and go a 2 Kings 2:23 - mocked Proverbs 30:15 - The horseleach Isaiah 1:4 - a seed Hosea 2:4 - children of Matthew 12:39 - adulterous Luke 11:29 - This is Luke 15:16 - no John 8:41 - We be Revelation 9:21 - their sorceries Revelation 22:15 - sorcerers

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But draw near hither,.... The death of the righteous, and their happiness after it, being observed: the wicked, who thought themselves safe from danger, and the happier that they were rid of the righteous, those witnesses and prophets which had tormented them, and therefore rejoiced on that account, are here summoned to the divine tribunal, to hear their character, and receive their doom, as follows:

ye sons of the sorceress; the children of Jezebel, the witch, and the prophetess that taught the servants of the Lord to commit fornication, and bewitched with her witchcrafts the sons of the apostate church of Rome; by whose sorceries all nations have been deceived, and of which she repents not, Revelation 2:20:

the seed of the adulterer and of the whore; of the great whore of Babylon, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and whose subjects and children are the seed of this whore, and the sons of this idolatrous church: or, "that committeth whoredom" g; which aggravates the character, that they were not only the children of adulterous persons, but committed whoredom themselves.

g ותזנה "qua scortata est", Piscator; "quod scortaris", Junius Tremellius "qui scortaris", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But draw near hither - That is, come near to hear the solemn sentence which God pronounces in regard to your character and doom. This is addressed to the impenitent and unbelieving part of the nation, and is designed to set before them the greatness of their sin, and the certainty that they would be punished.

Ye sons of the sorceress - You who are addicted to sorcery and enchantments; who consult the oracles of the pagan rather than the only true God. On the meaning of the word used here, see the notes at Isaiah 2:6. The Hebrews, like other inhabitants of the East, were much addicted to this, and particularly in the time of Manasseh 2 Kings 21:6 : ‘And he made his sons pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits, and wizards.’ So much were they devoted to this in his time, that they might be called, by way of eminence, ‘the sons of the sorceress;’ as if a sorceress had been their mother, and they had grown up to walk in her steps, and to imitate her example.

The seed of the adulterer - Implying that the obligations of the marriage contract were disregarded, and that licentiousness prevailed in the nation. Amidst the other abominations which existed under the wicked and corrupt reign of Manasseh 2 Kings 21:0, there is every probability that these sins also abounded. Licentiousness had been the invariable attendant on idol-worship; and dissoluteness of manners is the usual accompaniment of all other crimes. It is observable also that the Saviour often charges the same sin on the nation in his own time (Matthew 12:39; Matthew 16:4; John 8:1 ff.) In the language here, however, there is a reference to the fact that the nation had apostatized from God, and they were guilty of spiritual adultery - that is, of unfaithfulness to God. They fixed their affections on other objects than God, and loved the images of idol-worship more than they did their Creator.


 
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