MONUMENT.Isa_65:4, which remain among the graves and lodge in the monuments, that is, among the tombs. In the Rhemish Version monument is the usual word for tomb or sepulchre, after Vulg. [Note: Vulgate.] monumentum. The reference in Is. is to the custom of obtaining oracles by incubation, that is, spending the night in subterranean sacred places.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
mon?ū́-ment (Isa_65:4 the King James Version). See VAULT.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Monument
is the incorrect rendering in Isa_65:4 for נָצוּר, nzatsur', a guarded place (" hidden thing," as in Isa_48:6; elsewhere "besieged," etc.), such as caves (so the Sept. σπήλαιον), or the adyta or shrines of heathen temples (so the Vulg. delubra), as places of idolatrous or illicit devotion. It was anciently a practice in most nations for persons to resort to the sepulchres for the purpose of magic or necromancy, and this still holds its ground in India and other Oriental countries. SEE SUPERSTITION.
In the Apocrypha, "monument" is the correct rendering in Wis_10:7 for μνημεῖον, but inexactly in 1Ma_13:27 for ᾠκοδόμησε, and in 2Ma_15:6 for τρόπαιον. SEE TOMB.
For the monuments of Egypt and Assyria, see those countries respectively.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.