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Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 10:3

customs: Heb. statutes, or ordinances, are vanity, Jeremiah 10:8, Jeremiah 2:5, Leviticus 18:30, 1 Kings 18:26-Hosea :, Matthew 6:7, Romans 1:21, 1 Peter 1:18 one: Isaiah 40:19-Obadiah :, Isaiah 44:9-Proverbs :, Isaiah 45:20, Hosea 8:4-Joshua :, Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:19 Reciprocal: Exodus 20:4 - General Exodus 23:19 - Thou shalt not seethe a kid Leviticus 26:1 - Ye shall Deuteronomy 4:28 - neither see Judges 17:3 - a graven image 1 Kings 16:13 - vanities 1 Kings 16:26 - their vanities 2... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:1-5

THE NOTHINGNESS OF THE FALSE GODS, Jeremiah 10:1-5. Several eminent German critics have pronounced against the genuineness of the first sixteen verses of this chapter. Among these is the scholarly and evangelical Nagelsbach. Some regard the passage as interpolated from Isaiah, while others, and among them Nagelsbach, reject this theory of its origin. Upon this general question we observe: 1 . The external evidence for the passage is practically perfect. It receives the unanimous testimony of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:3

3. Customs Rather, ordinances, that is, their religious observances. These are as vain as the things on which they are based, namely, idols. The prophet now proceeds to show the vanity of idols in a passage which does, indeed, closely follow the thought of Isaiah, but is especially terse and graphic, and, when we consider that it was spoken when the popular current was setting toward idolatry, we shall feel it to be bold and effective. In the whole there is almost a vein of humour,... read more

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