Isaiah 65:4

"a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;"

Key Reflection

This verse describes a community that consistently angering God through their public and persistent worship practices, which include sacrifices in inappropriate places like gardens and odd offerings like burning incense on bricks. Such acts show a disregard for proper worship and are seen as offensive to God's holiness.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Which remain among the graves -That is, evidently for purposes of necromancy and divination. They do it to appear to hold converse with the dead, and to receive communications from them. The idea in necromancy was, that departed spirits must be acquainted with future events, or at least with the secret things of the invisible world where they dwelt, and that certain persons, by various arts, could become intimate with them, or ‘familiar’ with them, and, by obtaining their secrets, be able to communicate important truths to the living.

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