Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 10:3
The customs - Better, as the marg, “the ordinances,” established institutions, “of the peoples, i. e.” pagan nations.
The customs - Better, as the marg, “the ordinances,” established institutions, “of the peoples, i. e.” pagan nations.
Verse 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, idolatr...
CHAPTER 10 The Vanity of Idols _ 1. Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven (Jeremiah 10:1) _ 2. The contrast: The vanity of idols and the Lord, the King of Nations (Jeremiah 10:6) 3. The afflictio...
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY, This passage (like Jeremiah 9:23) interrupts the connexion of Jeremiah 9:22 and Jeremiah 10:17; its denunciation of the idols of the heathen as utterly futile for good or evil r...
CUSTOMS. statutes, or ordinances. PEOPLE. peoples. VAIN. a breath. ONE CUTTETH. TREE. it [is only]. tree which one cutteth....
Jeremiah 10:1-16. The folly of idolatry It is now generally recognised that this passage is a later insertion, for (_a_) it breaks the connexion between Jeremiah 9:1-22 and Jeremiah 10:17 ff.; while...
_customs_ lit. as mg. _statutes_. The expression is strange in this connexion. Probably the word in MT. has suffered corruption, but no substitute commanding general acceptance has been found. It is c...
THE PEOPLE— _The nations._...
V. GOD VS. THE IDOLS Jeremiah 10:1-25 In chapter 10 Jeremiah ridicules idolatry (Jeremiah 10:1-5) and extols the incomparable God of Israel (Jeremiah 10:6-16). He points out the folly of forsaking God...
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. ONE CUTTETH A TREE OUT OF THE FOREST. Maurer translates, 'It ...
10:3 chisel (d-22) Others, 'an axe.'...
1-16. The folly of idolatry. This section of the prophecy is of doubtful authorship. For (_a_) it introduces a break in the sense; (_b_) there is less smoothness between the parts than we generally fi...
PEOPLE] nations....
THE CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE. — Better, _ordinances of the peoples._ The prophet is speaking, not of common customs, but of religious institutions, and of these as belonging, not to “the people,” _i.e.,_...
כִּֽי ־חֻקֹּ֥ות הָֽ עַמִּ֖ים הֶ֣בֶל ה֑וּא כִּ
CHAPTER VI THE IDOLS OF THE HEATHEN AND THE GOD OF ISRAEL Jeremiah 10:1 THIS fine piece is altogether isolated from the surrounding context, which it interrupts in a very surprising manner. Neither...
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Jeremiah 10:1-10; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 20:1-18; Jeremiah 21:1-14; Jeremiah 22:1-30; Jeremiah 23:1-40; Jeremiah 24:1-10; Jeremiah 25:1-38...
Here begins the third movement in the commissioning of the prophet. In it the sin of idolatry is first dealt with. The prophet revealed the unutterable folly of idolatry in a powerful contrast between...
For the (b) customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. (b) Meaning not only in the observation of the stars, but...
This is most striking sermon, and very highly finished, in which the Prophet, in the Lord's name, asserts his divine nature and sovereignty: and then displays the folly of idols. The words are so plai...
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 ad...
In chapter 10 the idols and the vanities of the nations are put in contrast with Jehovah. In Verses 19-25 (Jeremiah 10:19-25) we have the affliction of the prophet, speaking of the desolation of Jerus...
FOR THE CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE ARE VAIN,.... Or, "their decrees", or "statutes" o, their determinations and conclusions, founded upon the observation of the stars; or, their "rites and ceremonies" p in...
For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. Ver. 3. For the customs of the people _a_ are vain.] Their ri...
_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; where see the notes....
For the customs of the people are vain, literally, "the precepts of the nations," what they fix for people to follow, "are breath, nothingness"; FOR ONE CUTTETH A TREE OUT OF THE FOREST, literally, "f...
THE NOTHINGNESS OF IDOLS...
CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE ARE VAIN: _ Heb._ statutes, or, ordinances are vanity...
1-16 The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the folly of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to pry into futurity, are copied from the wicked custom...
THE CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE ARE VAIN, i.e. such courses, institutions, idolatrous customs, and ceremonies as these, that many people follow, they are vain, and it is a foolish and wicked thing that any...
Jeremiah 10:3 customs H2708 peoples H5971 futile H1892 cuts H3772 (H8804) tree H6086 forest H3293 work H4639 hands
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL ARE NOT TO LEARN THE WAY OF THE NATIONS BECAUSE, WHILE YHWH IS GREAT BEYOND DESCRIBING, THEIR IDOLS ARE UTTERLY FUTILE (JEREMIAH 10:1). This passage, in a sequence of verses, compa...
Jeremiah 10:1. _Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, concluded. Greatness of the true God. Coming distresses in the land because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is the one only living and tr...
Jeremiah 10:2. _Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;_ at the position of revolving planets on which the augurs found predictions, and discover their ignorance. Be not dismayed at solar eclipses, at...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 10:3 IDOLS are made by people, so idols have no power to SPEAK or act. Serving them makes no sense (Isaiah 4
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section 1–16 has been declared spurious (by De Wette, Movers, and Hitzig), its authenticity disputed, a late interpolation by either the ps...
EXPOSITION Whoever wrote the prophecy in Jeremiah 10:1 of this chapter, it was not Jeremiah; but of course, as the passage forms part of a canonical book, its claims to the character of a Scripture re...
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [or the Zodiac]; for the heathen...
1 Kings 18:26; 1 Peter 1:18; Habakkuk 2:18; Habakkuk 2:19; Hosea 8:4