“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.”
The concealment of idolatrous symbols "behind your doors and doorposts" and the revelation of intimacy to strangers conflate religious infidelity with sexual transgression and private shame. The language suggests deliberate concealment paired with paradoxical exposure—a theological contradiction capturing the moral incoherence of syncretism. The phrase "you exposed yourself to strangers" implicates not innocent error but willful covenant violation, trading exclusive covenant relationship for foreign alliances. This verse's rhetorical strategy makes idolatry obscene and shameful, inverting the proud idolater's self-assessment.
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