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Isa 57:8 — Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered [thyself to another] than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest [it].

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

the doors		Eze 8:8-12; Eze 23:14,41
for		Eze 16:32
made thee a covenant with them		or, hewed it for thyself larger than theirs
thou lovedst		Eze 16:25-28; Eze 23:2-20
where thou sawest it		or, thou providest room.

Correlating Passages

the doors

	Eze 8:8	Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
	Eze 8:9	And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
	Eze 8:10	So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
	Eze 8:11	And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
	Eze 8:12	Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
	Eze 23:14	And [that] she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
	Eze 23:41	And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

for

Eze 16:32

[But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband!

thou lovedst

	Eze 16:25	Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
	Eze 16:26	Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
	Eze 16:27	Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary [food], and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
	Eze 16:28	Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
	Eze 23:2	Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
	Eze 23:3	And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.
	Eze 23:4	And the names of them [were] Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus [were] their names; Samaria [is] Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
	Eze 23:5	And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours,
	Eze 23:6	[Which were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
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Scott, Thomas. "Isaiah 57:8," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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