Jeremiah 10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:1

Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you - Dr. Dahler supposes this discourse to have been delivered in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim. It contains an invective against idolatry; showing its absurdity, and that the Creator alone should be worshipped by all mankind. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:2

Learn not the way of the heathen - These words are more particularly addressed to the ten tribes scattered among the heathen by the Assyrians, who carried them away captive; they may also regard those in the land of Israel who still had the customs of the former heathen settlers before their eyes. Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed - The Chaldeans and Egyptians were notoriously addicated to astrology; and the Israelites here are cautioned against it. The... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:3

The customs of the people are vain - חקות chukkoth ; the statutes and principles of the science are vain, empty, and illusory. They are founded in nonsense, ignorance, idolatry, and folly. One cutteth a tree out of the forest - See the notes on Isaiah 40:19 ; (note), and Isaiah 44:9 ; (note), etc., which are all parallel places and where this conduct is strongly ridiculed. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:5

They are upright as the palm tree - As straight and as stiff as the trees out of which they are hewn. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:7

Who would not fear thee - Who would not worship thee as the Author and Giver of all good? The fear of God is often taken for the whole of true religion. Among all the wise men of the nation - Not even the wisest and most cultivated of the nations have ever found out any one equal to thee; but so exalted and holy art thou, that in all their wisdom and research they have never been able to find out the true God. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:8

The stock is a doctrine of vanities - Dr. Blayney translates, - "The wood itself is a rebuker of vanities." The very tree out of which the god is hewn demonstrates the vanity and folly of the idolaters; for, can all the art of man make out of a log of wood an animate and intelligent being? read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:9

Brought from Tarshish - Some suppose this to be Tartessus in Spain, from which the Phoenicians brought much silver. Uphaz, Calmet thinks to be the river Pison; some think Ophir is intended. Blue and purple is their clothing - These were the most precious dyes; very rare, and of high price. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord - The original word should be preserved, however we agree to pronounce it: יהוה Yehovah is the true God. He is without beginning, and without end. This is true of no being else. He is the living God - His being is underived; and he gives life to all. He is the very Fountain whence all life is derived. And an everlasting king - As he has made, so he governs, all things. His sway is felt both in the heavens and in the earth. At his wrath the earth shall tremble - ... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:11

Thus shall ye say unto them - This is the message you shall deliver to the Chaldean idolaters. The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish - Both they and their worshippers shall be destroyed; and idolatry shall finally be destroyed from the earth; and the heavens shall look no more on so great an abomination. It is suffered for a while: but in the end shall be destroyed. This verse is written in a sort of Hebraeo-Syriaco-Chaldee; such a dialect as I... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:13

When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters - This is a plain allusion to a storm of thunder and lightning, and the abundance of rain which is the consequence. Water is composed of two gases, hydrogen and oxygen: the electric or galvanic spark decomposes them, and they become air; when recomposed, they form water. The lightning acts upon the hydrogen and oxygen, which are found In the atmospheric air: they are decomposed, and water or rain is the consequence; which, being... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:13

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