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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 10:3-5

Jeremiah 10:3-5. One cutteth down a tree, &c. The prophet here exposes the folly of men’s worshipping the work of their own hands, by arguments similar to those which are used by Isaiah 44:10-20; where see the notes. They are upright, &c. They are like the trunk of the palm-tree Houb. “They are inflexible, immoveable, fixed, without action or motion, like the trunk of a tree: a comparison which admirably suits the ancient statues seen in Egypt and elsewhere, before the art of... 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 10:2

the way of the heathen. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 18:3 ; Leviticus 20:23 ). heathen = nations. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 10:3

customs = statutes, or ordinances. people = peoples. vain = a breath. one cutteth a tree = it [is only] a tree which one cutteth. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 10:2

Jeremiah 10:2. Learn not the way of the heathen— It is well-known, that the Chaldeans and Egyptians were remarkable for their attention to astrology; and therefore the prophet here exhorts the Jews, that when they were to live among those people, they should pay no regard to the predictions which they might utter from the heavenly bodies, whereby they terrified the people with the apprehension of impending evils. Instead of, for the heathen are dismayed, we may read, although the heathen,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 10:3

Jeremiah 10:3. The people— The nations. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 10:2

2. EICHORN thinks the reference here to be to some celestial portent which had appeared at that time, causing the Jews' dismay. Probably the reference is general, namely, to the Chaldeans, famed as astrologers, through contact with whom the Jews were likely to fall into the same superstition. way—the precepts or ordinances (Leviticus 18:3; Acts 9:2). signs of heaven—The Gentiles did not acknowledge a Great First Cause: many thought events depended on the power of the stars, which some, as... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 10:4

4. fasten . . . move not—that is, that it may stand upright without risk of falling, which the god (!) would do, if left to itself ( :-). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 10:1-16

A satire on idolatry 10:1-16This scathing exposé of the folly of idolatry resembles several polemics in Isaiah (cf. Isaiah 40:18-20; Isaiah 41:6-7; Isaiah 44:9-20; Isaiah 46:5-7). Jeremiah 10:12-16 appear again in Jeremiah 51:15-19."Why did so easy a target as idolatry need so many attacks in the Old Testament? Jeremiah 10:9 suggests one reason: the appeal of the visually impressive; but perhaps Jeremiah 10:2 goes deeper, in pointing to the temptation to fall into step with the majority."... read more