Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 2:6

6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob , because they be replenished from the east , and are soothsayers , like the Philistins , and they please themselves in the children of strangers .

For the following Reasons. Or, But, as this Particle is oft used. But why do I perswade the Israelites to receive the Light of the Gospel? My labour is in vain. I foresee they will refuse it; and God, for their many and great Sins, will give them up to Apostacy and Infidelity.

Wilt certainly forsake and reject.

The Body of that Nation.

Their Land is full of the impious, and superstitious, and idolatrous Manners of the Eastern Nations, the Syrians and Chaldaeans.

These undertook to discover secret things, and to foretel future contingent things, by the superstitious Observation of the Stars, or Clouds, or Birds, or other ways of Divination, which God had severely forbidden. See Levit. 19. 26.

Who were infamous for those Practices; of which see one Instance, 1 Sam. 6. 2.

They delight in their Manners, and Company, and Conversation, making Leagues, and Friendships, and Marriages with them.

Either, 1. in the Children begotten by them upon strange Women; or rather, 2. in strangers, as this Phrase is used Neh. 9. 2. Isa. 60. 10. and elsewhere.

Marginal references: Or, more than the east.; Deut. 18. 14.; Or, aboand with their children, &c.