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Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:2
The way of the heathen . "Way" equivalent to "religion" (comp. ὁδὸς , Acts 9:2 , etc.). Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven ; alluding to the astrological calculations based upon extraordinary appearances in the sky. Diodorus Siculus remarks 2.30)—and his statement is fully confirmed by the Babylonian cuneiform tablets—that "the appearance of comets, eclipses of the sun and moon, earthquakes, and in fact every kind of change occasioned by the atmosphere, whether good or bad, both... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:2
The dismay of the heathen at the signs of heaven. By the signs of heaven here are doubtless meant those heavenly bodies given for signs and seasons, days-and years ( Genesis 1:14 ); this view still further helping to explain the reference in Jeremiah 8:2 to sun and moon and all the host of heaven. Why these should terrify it is not very easy for us to comprehend, surrounded as we are by quite different associations. Often, indeed, there is cause of terror in the heavens above us, as... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:2-5
The helplessness of heathen gods a conclusive argument against them. How is the superstitious worship of nature and inanimate objects to be corrected? It is obvious that the attributes attached by the worshippers to the idols they worship are wholly foreign to them. It is ignorance, association, and the tendency to transfer subjective ideas to objects of sense, that have largely to do with this. The correction, therefore, must be furnished by a real analysis of the idol—a taking of it to... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:3
The customs of the people . "People" should, as usual, be corrected into peoples —the heathen nations are referred to. The Hebrew has "the statutes;" but the Authorized Version is substantially right, customs having a force as of iron in Eastern countries. It seems to be implied that the "customs" are of religious origin in a field of cucumbers . This is the interpretation given to our passage in Verse 70 of the apocryphal Epistle o! Jeremiah (written in the Maccabean period,... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 10:2
Signs of heaven - Extraordinary appearances, such as eclipses, comets, and the like, which seemed to the pagan to portend national calamities. To attribute importance to them is to walk in pagan ways. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 10:3
The customs - Better, as the marg, “the ordinances,” established institutions, “of the peoples, i. e.” pagan nations. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 10:4
They deck it - It was covered with plates of gold and silver, and then fastened with nails in its place, that it might not “more, i. e.” tumble down.The agreement in this and the following verses with the argument in Isa. 40–44 is so manifest, that no one can doubt that the one is modelled upon the other. If, therefore, Jeremiah took the thoughts and phrases from Isaiah, it is plain that the last 27 chapters of Isaiah were prior in date to Jeremiah’s time, and were not therefore written at the... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 10:1-2
Jeremiah 10:1-2. Hear ye the word, &c. The prophet continues his remonstrances and exhortations to Judah. He said, at the conclusion of the preceding chapter, that the Lord would punish, without distinction, all the ungodly and unrighteous Jews, as well as Gentiles. He here informs them that if they would avoid this vengeance of the Lord they must quit their idolatries and other impieties, and have nothing to do with the superstitious practices of the Gentile nations. Learn not the way... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-17
Idolatry. This section of Jeremiah's prophecy is one of the notable passages in the. Scriptures concerning idolatry. It is like that in Psalms 115:1-18 ; and in Isaiah 40:1-31 ; Isaiah 44:1-28 . It states or suggests much of great interest on this subject, and which deserves to be well considered by us. There is— I. THE TREMENDOUS FACT OF IDOLATRY . See: 1. The multitudes of mankind who have avowed such worship. 2. The wide extent of the world's inhabited... read more