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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Jeremiah 16:20

Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? The question has the strength of a most emphatic denial, of a stern rebuke to the men of Judah for their idolatrous ways. Moreover, the Lord expresses His emphatic agreement with this statement of Jeremiah.

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See also Jeremiah 16:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 16:20. _SHALL A MAN MAKE GODS UNTO HIMSELF?_] Can any be so silly, and so preposterously absurd? Yes, fallen man is capable of any thing that is base, mean, vile, and wicked, till influ...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17) CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _ 2. The coming days of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MAN. Hebrew. _'adam_. App-14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Du. rejects all these _vv_. Co. omits 9 13, suspects the genuineness of 14, 15 both here and in Jeremiah 23:7 f., and rejects 16, as well as portions of 17 21. Gi. retains of the whole series only Jer...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to section. For the thought in Jeremiah 16:19 cp. Jeremiah 12:15 f. and for the interest felt by Jeremiah in the religious life of the heathen, Jeremiah 2:11 _a_. Hence Co. with Gi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. Affirmation by the Prophet Jeremiah 16:19-21 TRANSLATION (19) O LORD my strength and my fortress and my refuge in the day of trouble: Unto You the nations shall come from the ends of the earth and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? SHALL A MAN MAKE GODS UNTO HIMSELF - indignant protest of Jeremiah against idols. AND THEY ARE NO GODS - (; ; ). "They" refers to the ido...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ יַעֲשֶׂה ־לֹּ֥ו אָדָ֖ם אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְ הֵ֖מָּ

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism, commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to say, h...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Make gods. This consideration alone suffices to shew their absurdity. (Calmet) --- "Man must now be merciful to god!" (Tertullian, Apol.) --- No one can make even a man, much less a god. (St. Jerome)...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The prayer of the Prophet is a beautiful break in the subject; as if the man of God felt his mind instantly led out, so to look up and plead with the Lord, from what had been said. And the burden of h...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Some frigidly explain this verse, as though the Prophet said that men are doubly foolish, who form for themselves gods from wood, stone, gold, or silver, because they cannot change their nature; for w...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely br...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SHALL A MAN MAKE GODS UNTO HIMSELF,.... Can a man make his own gods? a poor, weak, mortal man? can he make gods of gold, silver, brass, wood, or stone? can he put deity into them? and when he has made...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they [are] no gods? Ver. 20. _Should a man make gods to himself?_] _Nonne res haec stupore digna?_ Is not this a strange sottishness? The Gentiles here see it,...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _O Lord, my strength_ To support and comfort me; _my fortress_ To protect and shelter me; _and my refuge in the day of affliction_ To whom I may flee for deliverance and consolation; _the Gentiles, th...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-21 The restoration from the Babylonish captivity would be remembered in place of the deliverance from Egypt; it also typified spiritual redemption, and the future deliverance of the church from an...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    It is doubtful whether these be to be understood as the words of God, showing the unreasonableness of the sin of idolatry, or, as others make them, the continued speech of the Gentiles, who after thei...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 16:20 man H120 make H6213 (H8799) gods H430 gods H430 Psalms 115:4-8,...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIN OF JUDAH IS ESPECIALLY HEINOUS IN THE LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT ONE DAY THE NATIONS WILL RECOGNISE THE FOLLY OF THEIR IDOLATRY. THIS MAKE JUDAH'S TURNING TO IDOLS TOTALLY REPREHENSIBLE (JEREMIAH...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming calamities. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the backslider in heart with his...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O Lord, my strength, and my fortress._ WHAT GOD IS TO HIS PEOPLE One of the Puritans was accustomed to describe prayer as the flight of the lonely man to the only God. There is such prayer here. Th...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 16:19 Jeremiah’s confession of faith indicates he has repented, as he was ordered to do (Jeremiah 15:19). The NATIONS will...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the capture...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21. Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16: The word of the LORD came also unto me...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 19:26; Galatians 1:8; Galatians 4:8; Hosea 8:4; Isaiah 36:19;...

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