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Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-16

CHAPTER VITHE IDOLS OF THE HEATHEN AND THE GOD OF ISRAELJeremiah 10:1-16THIS fine piece is altogether isolated from the surrounding context, which it interrupts in a very surprising manner. Neither the style nor the subject, neither the idioms nor the thoughts expressed in them, agree with what we easily recognise as Jeremiah’s work. A stronger contrast can hardly be imagined than that which exists between the leading motive of this oracle as it stands, and that of the long discourse in which... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-25

Jeremiah 8:1-22; Jeremiah 9:1-26; Jeremiah 10:1-25; Jeremiah 26:1-24In the four chapters which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a finished whole. The only possible exception {Jeremiah 10:1-16} shall be considered in its place. The historical occasion of the introductory prophecy, {Jeremiah 7:1-15} and the immediate effect of its delivery, are recorded at length in the twenty-sixth chapter of the book, so that in this instance we are happily not left to the uncertainties of... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Jeremiah 10:1-25

CHAPTER 10 The Vanity of Idols 1. Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven (Jeremiah 10:1-5 ) 2. The contrast: The vanity of idols and the Lord, the King of Nations (Jeremiah 10:6-18 ) 3. The affliction of the prophet and his prayer (Jeremiah 10:19-25 ) Jeremiah 10:1-5 . The heathen paid attention to the signs of heaven, such as eclipses, comets, meteoric showers, etc. They were dismayed at these things. All they did, their customs and observances in connection with idol worship, was... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 10:3

10:3 For the {b} customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.(b) Meaning not only in the observation of the stars, but their laws and ceremonies by which they confirm their idolatry, which is forbidden, De 12:30 . read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-25

PERSECUTED IN HIS HOME TOWN The length of this lesson may alarm, but preparation for it only requires the reading of the chapters two or three times. One who has gone through Isaiah will soon catch the drift of the Spirit’s teaching and be able to break up the chapters into separate discourses and the discourses into their various themes. The main object of the lesson is to dwell on the prophet’s personal experience in his home town which is reached in the closing chapters. It is thought... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Jeremiah 10:3-5

The Gods of the Heathen Jer 10:3-5 Before coming to the exact subject of these verses, two or three particular points in the chapter as a whole will be found to be worthy of attention. The chapter is an address delivered to the house of Israel, which had been told that it was uncircumcised in heart, or on a level with the heathen nations around it; the writer proceeds from a general indictment against Israel to prefer a special complaint namely, that Israel was disposed to adopt the customs... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-16

This is most striking sermon, and very highly finished, in which the Prophet, in the Lord's name, asserts his divine nature and sovereignty: and then displays the folly of idols. The words are so plain, that they can need no comment. Isaiah had it in commission, to preach to the same amount: and he hath done it in the most sublime manner. Isaiah 44:9-21 . And let the Reader observe in the close of this paragraph, how sweetly the Lord speaks of the Israel of God: as the Lord's portion and the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:1-16

1-16 The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the folly of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to pry into futurity, are copied from the wicked customs of the heathen. Let us stand in awe, and not dare provoke God, by giving that glory to another which is due to him alone. He is ready to forgive, and save all who repent and believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ. Faith learns these blessed truths from the word of God; but all knowledge not... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Jeremiah 10:1-16

The Nothingness of Idols v. 1. Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel! those who now survived as the representatives of the former great nation. v. 2. Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, in becoming accustomed to their idolatrous worship, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven, filled with the fear which caused the Gentile nations to associate various perils with the movements of comets, with the occurrence of eclipses, and other... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Jeremiah 10:1-25

LATER ADDITION: WARNING AGAINST IDOLATRYJeremiah 10:1-17a. The nothingness of idolsJer 10:1-5 11 Hear the word, which Jehovah has spoken to you,2 house of Israel!2 Thus saith Jehovah: To the way of the heathen accustom3 yourselves not,And be not affrighted at the signs of Heaven, because the heathen are affrighted at them;3 For the institutions of the nations—breath are they!For as a forest tree have they been cut out,—For the work4 of the hands of the artificer, with an... read more