Jeremiah 10:14-15 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-16

The prophet Isaiah, when he prophesied of the captivity in Babylon, added warnings against idolatry and largely exposed the sottishness of idolaters, not only because the temptations in Babylon would be in danger of drawing the Jews there to idolatry, but because the afflictions in Babylon were designed to cure them of their idolatry. Thus the prophet Jeremiah here arms people against the idolatrous usages and customs of the heathen, not only for the use of those that had gone to Babylon, but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 10:14

Every man is brutish in his knowledge ,.... Or science of making an idol, whether it be of wood, or of gold, or silver, or brass; he is no better than a brute, if he thinks, when he has made it, he has made a god: or, "because of knowledge" F23 מדעת "propter scientiam", Pagninus, Montanus; "a scientia", Calvin, Grotius, Schmidt. ; for want of it; being without the knowledge of God and divine things, he is like the beasts that perish, Psalm 49:20 , every founder is confounded by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 10:15

They are vanity ,.... They are the fruit of the vain imagination of men; to worship them shows the vanity of the human mind; and they are vain things to trust to: and the work of errors ; of erroneous men, and which lead men into errors; and are worthy to be laughed at, as the Targum paraphrases it. In the time of their visitation they shall perish ; or in the time that I shall visit upon them their sins, as the Targum; that is, when Babylon should be destroyed by the Medes and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:14

Every man is brutish - נבער nibar , is a boor, acts as a brute, who may suppose that a stock of a tree, formed like a man, may be an intellectual being; and therefore shuns the form as though it had life. See Isaiah 44:10 , Isaiah 44:11 . Of which verses, by the way, Dr. Blayney gives the following version to correct that of Bishop Lowth: - Isaiah 44:10 . Who hath formed a god? Or set up a graven image that profiteth not? Isaiah 44:11 . Behold, all that are connected with... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:14

Verse 14 Some too refinedly explain the beginning of this verse — that their own subtlety or wisdom, which they arrogate, infatuates men, according to what Paul says, that men become vain in their minds, when they form an idea of God according to their own imagination. (Romans 1:21.) But the Prophet speaks more plainly, for he says, that all artificers were foolish The word lrnowledge is not to be taken here for knowledge of truth, but for the knowledge of artificers, whether carpenters or... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:15

Verse 15 He confirms the same thing. What he called before falsehood, שקר, shikor, he calls now vanity, הבל ebel. They are vanity, he says. He had said that they were falsehood, which means, that men were grossly deceived when they sought the presence of God in dead things, now he says, that they were vanity, and also the work of illusions; but some render the last word “mockeries,” taking it in a passive sense; and hence the Chaldee interpreter renders it, “a thing worthy of ridicule and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-25

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:12-16

Repeated with a slight variation in Jeremiah 51:15-19 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:14

Before these natural miracles, all men, except those who have been enlightened by revelation, are without knowledge (so, and not in his knowledge, we ought to render); i . e . without insight into their origin and meaning (compare the overwhelming series of questions in the sublime theophany in Job, Jeremiah 28:1-17 :39.). Every founder is confounded by , etc.; rather, every goldsmith is brought to shame by the graven image ; for how can the work which has needed all the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 10:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 10:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:12-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:14

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