Jeremiah 10:3 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 10:3

For the customs of the people are vain ,.... Or, "their decrees", or "statutes" F15 חקות "decreta", Targ.; "statua", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt. , their determinations and conclusions, founded upon the observation of the stars; or, their "rites and ceremonies" F16 Ritus, Vatablus; "ceremoniae", Tigurine version. in religion, in the worship of the sun and moon, and the hosts of heaven. The Syriac version is, "the idols of the people are nothing"; and... read more

Adam Clarke

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

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:3

Verse 3 The Prophet seems to break off his subject, and even to reason inconclusively; for he had said in the last verse, “Learn not the rites of the Gentiles, and fear not the celestial signs;” and he now adds, Because the rites of the Gentiles are vanity; for wood they cut down from the forest. He seems then, as though forgetting himself, to have passed off to idols. But we must observe, that the Jews were influenced by that ancient opinion, that the Chaldeans and the Egyptians were alone... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-5

The folly of paganism. I. THE FOLLY OF PAGANISM PROVES THE WEAKNESS OF SUPERSTITIOUS FEARS . The Jews were tempted to fear astrological portents ( Jeremiah 10:2 ) and idol-powers ( Jeremiah 10:5 ). Yet a little reflection was enough to show that these things were impotent for harm. The lowest religion is a product of fear. Superstition finds converts where rational faith fails. The trouble thus resulting from the weakness of men can only be dissipated by boldly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-12

What men fear and what they ought to fear. I. WHAT MEN FEAR . They fear mere images of theft own manufacture . Note the connection between Jeremiah 10:2 and Jeremiah 10:3 . In Jeremiah 10:2 the heathen are spoken of as being dismayed at the signs of heaven. Probably these signs, considered in their more particular and direct connection with the dismay, were really images on earth, representing the supposed Divine dignity. of the bodies in the heavens. The heavenly... 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 10:2-5

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 10:3

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

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 10:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:1-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:2-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 10:3

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