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Isa 57:8 King James 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.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
"Remembrance," that is, memorials of thy idolatry: the objects which thou holdest in remembrance. They hung up household tutelary gods "behind the doors"; the very place where God has directed them to write His laws "on the posts and gates" (Deu 6:9; Deu 11:20); a curse, too, was pronounced on putting up an image "in a secret place" (Deu 27:15).

discovered thyself--image from an adulteress.

enlarged . . . bed--so as to receive the more paramours.

made . . . covenant--with idols: in open violation of thy "covenant" with God (Exo 19:5; Exo 23:32). Or, "hast made assignations with them for thyself" [HORSLEY].

thy bed . . . their bed--The Jews' sin was twofold; they resorted to places of idolatry ("their bed"), and they received idols into the temple of God ("thy bed").

where--rather, "ever since that" [HORSLEY]. The Hebrew for "where" means "room" (Margin), a place; therefore, translate, "thou hast provided a place for it" (for "their bed"), namely, by admitting idolatrous altars in thy land [BARNES]; or "thou choosest a (convenient) place for thyself" in their bed [MAURER] (Isa 56:5).
 
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5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.