耶利米書 10:8-9 CUNPTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:8

Brutish and foolish . In fact, the original meaning of the idolatrous religions had begun, probably, to fade, and the worship of Bel and Nebo had become (as the worship of the Egyptian gods became at a later period) increasingly formal and ritualistic. T he stock is a doctrine of vanities ; rather, an instruction of vanities ; i . e . all that the idols can teach is vanities. Against this is the plural ("vanities," not vanity); it is more natural (and also more in accordance with... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:9

This verse apparently once followed Jeremiah 10:5 . Like Jeremiah 10:7 and Jeremiah 10:8 , it is omitted in the Septuagint. Silver spread into plates , etc. The silver and gold were meant for the coating of the wooden image (comp. Isaiah 30:22 ; Isaiah 40:19 ). Tarshish ; i . e . Tartessus, in south-west Spain, between the two mouths of the Baetis, or Guadal-quivir. Gold from Uphaz . A place bearing this name, or anything like it, is not known from other sources than the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 10:8

Brutish - Jeremiah 10:21 and foolish Theirs was the brutishness of men in a savage state, little better than mere animals: their folly that of stupidity.The stock ... - Rather, the instruction of idols is a piece of wood. That is what they are themselves, and “ex nihilo nihil fit” (from nothingness, nothing is made). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 10:9

Or, “It is a piece of wood (Jeremiah 10:8 note); yea, beaten silver it is, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz: it is the work etc.”Tarshish ... Uphaz - See the marginal reference and Genesis 10:4. Possibly Uphaz was a place in the neighborhood of the River Hyphasis.Blue and purple - Both colors were purple, from dyes obtained from shellfish: but the former had a violet, the latter a red tinge. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 10:8

Jeremiah 10:8. But they are altogether brutish Or, all alike brutish. They that make images, saith the psalmist, Psalms 115:8, are like unto them, equally stupid and insensible. The stock is a doctrine of vanities Or lies. The use of images in worship is grounded on a false and foolish opinion, that God is like the work of men’s hands, and that images have some divine power lodged within them, and in this opinion it has a direct tendency to confirm the ignorant. Hence an image is... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 10:9

Jeremiah 10:9. Silver spread into plates To cover the images, and make them appear as if made of massy silver; is brought from Tarshish A port of Spain, to which the merchants of Tyre and Sidon traded; of which place see note on Isaiah 2:16. And gold from Uphaz The Syriac, Chaldee, and Theodotion read, from Ophir, which Bochart supposes to be here meant; namely, Ophir in India, near Zeilan, a place famous for gold. Blue and purple are their clothing “The splendour and magnificence... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-16

Knowledge of the only true God (9:23-10:16)People may have knowledge, power and wealth, but these are no substitute for a true understanding and knowledge of God (23-24). The Judeans may have been circumcised as a sign that they are the covenant people of God, but in their hearts they have not been true to God or the covenant. They might as well be uncircumcised like their heathen neighbours. Israel’s rite of circumcision is no more beneficial to disobedient people than the heathen rite of... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 10:9

Tarshish. See note on 1 Kings 10:22 . Uphaz. Probably = Ophir. Compare 1 Kings 9:28 ; 1 Kings 10:11 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 10:8

Jeremiah 10:8. But they are altogether brutish, &c.— But they are altogether foolish, and have received the instruction of those which are nothing but wood. Houb. The stock is a doctrine of vanities— The true meaning and force of this passage seems to have escaped the notice of all the commentators, except Blayney. מוסר musar, properly signifies rectifying or correcting a false notion by just reproof; and by vanities are meant idols, so called from their being of no real use or advantage to... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 10:9

Jeremiah 10:9. Tarshish, and—Uphaz— Tarshish was a place at this time celebrated through all the East for its commerce. Calmet has endeavoured to prove, in his dissertation upon Ophir, that the gold of Uphaz was the same with that of the river Pison; and Bochart supposes Uphaz to be the same with Ophir in India, near Zeilan, a place famous for gold. Blue and purple is their clothing— The splendor and magnificence of dress seems among the ancients to have consisted very much in the richness of... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 10:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 10:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 10:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 10:9

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-16

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 10:9

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 10:8

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 10:9

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