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مزامير 106:39
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defiled: Isaiah 24:5, Isaiah 24:6, Isaiah 59:3, Ezekiel 20:18, Ezekiel 20:30, Ezekiel 20:31, Ezekiel 20:43
went: Exodus 34:16, Leviticus 17:7, Leviticus 20:5, Leviticus 20:6, Numbers 15:39, Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:2, Jeremiah 3:6-9, Ezekiel 16:15-63, Ezekiel 23:3-49, Hosea 9:1, Revelation 17:1-6
their own: Psalms 106:29
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 31:16 - and go a Judges 2:17 - whoring Judges 8:27 - a whoring 1 Kings 12:33 - in the month 2 Kings 16:10 - the pattern 2 Chronicles 21:11 - fornication Ecclesiastes 7:29 - they Jeremiah 2:7 - ye defiled Ezekiel 23:7 - with all their Hosea 1:2 - for Hosea 11:6 - because Romans 1:30 - inventors
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thus were they defiled with their own works,.... Not the land only, but they themselves also; or "with their works" a, with the works of the Heathen they learned, Psalms 106:35, or rather with their own works, the works of the flesh, especially their shocking idolatries: sin is of a defiling nature; it has defiled all men, it defiles all of men, all the faculties of their souls, and all the members of their bodies; nor can anything truly and thoroughly cleanse from it but the blood of Christ: even men's works of righteousness are as filthy rags and defiling, and much more their evil works.
And went a whoring with their own inventions; after other gods; idolatry is often in Scripture signified by whoredom; the idolatry of Israel and Judah is represented by two harlots and their lewd practices, in Ezekiel 23:1 and hence the apostate church of Rome is compared to a whore, because of her idolatry, Revelation 17:1.
a במעשיהם "operibus earum", Muis; so Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thus were they defiled with their own works - By their very attempts to deliver themselves from sin. They were corrupt, and the consciousness that they were sinners led them to the commission of even greater enormities in attempting to expiate their guilt, even by the sacrifice of their own sons and daughters. Thus all the religions of the pagan begin in sin, and end in sin. The consciousness of sin only leads to the commission of greater sin; to all the abominations of idol-worship; to the sacrifice - the murder - of the innocent, with the vain hope of thus making expiation for their crimes. Sinners have never yet been able to devise a way by which they may make themselves pure. It is only the great Sacrifice made on the cross which meets the case; which provides expiation; and which saves from future sin.
And went a whoring - Apostacy from God and backsliding are ofen illustrated in the Scriptures by the violation of the marriage compact, as the relation between God and his people is often compared with the relation between a husband and wife. Compare Isaiah 62:5; Jeremiah 3:14; Jeremiah 7:9; Jeremiah 13:27; Ezekiel 16:20, Ezekiel 16:22, Ezekiel 16:25, Ezekiel 16:33-34; Ezekiel 23:17.
With their own inventions - More literally, With their own works. See the notes at Psalms 106:29.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 106:39. And went a whoring. — By fornication, whoredom, and idolatry, the Scripture often expresses idolatry and idolatrous acts. I have given the reason of this in other places. Besides being false to the true God, to whom they are represented as betrothed and married, (and their acts of idolatry were breaches of this solemn engagement,) the worship of idols was frequently accompanied with various acts of impurity.
The translation in the Anglo-Saxon is very remarkable: [A.S.] and they fornicated. In Anglo-Saxon, [A.S.] signifies to fire, to ignite; [A.S.] to commit adultery. So [A.S.] is a prostitute, a whore; and [A.S.] is to go a whoring, to fornicate; probably from [A.S.], or [A.S.] to fire, and [A.S.], to lie, or [A.S.], a glutton; - one who lies with fire, who is ignited by it, who is greedily intent upon the act by which he is inflamed. And do not the words themselves show that in former times whoredom was punished, as it is now, by a disease which produces the sensation of burning in the unhappy prostitutes, whether male or female? And to this meaning the following seems particularly to be applicable.