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Verse 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...
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SIGNS OF HEAVEN - Extraordinary appearances, such as eclipses, comets,
and the like, which seemed to the pagan to portend national
calamities. To attribute importance to them is to walk in pagan ways....
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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...
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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...
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THE WAY OF THE HEATHEN. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 18:3;
Leviticus 20:23).
HEATHEN. nations....
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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...
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_the signs of heaven_ heavenly portents, such as comets, meteors, or
eclipses, an allusion to the Babylonian love of astrology....
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LEARN NOT THE WAY OF THE HEATHEN— It is well-known, that the
Chaldeans and Egyptians were remarkable for their attention to
astrology; and therefore the prophet here exhorts the Jews, that when
they w...
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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...
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Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not
dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
LEARN NOT THE WAY OF THE HEATHEN, AND BE NOT DISMAYED AT THE...
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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...
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SIGNS OF HEAVEN] portents in the sky, such as comets and meteors....
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BE NOT DISMAYED AT THE SIGNS OF HEAVEN. — The special reference is
to the “astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators”
of the Chaldæans (Isaiah 47:13), finding portents either in the
con...
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כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה אֶל ־דֶּ֤רֶךְ
הַ גֹּוי
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not
dismayed at the (a) signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at
them.
(a) God forbids his people to give credit or fear the const...
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_Ways. Religious rites, ver. 3. --- Fear. Worship, Leviticus xix. 14.
--- Signs. They were designed to point out the seasons, Genesis i. 14.
(Calmet) --- Heathens thought that they had a divine power....
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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...
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_Learn not, _he says, _the way of the nations _The Hebrew grammarians
take אל _, al _ את _at. _(2) Way, we know, is everywhere taken for
all those customs and habits by which human life is regulated,...
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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...
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THUS SAITH THE LORD, LEARN NOT THE WAY OF THE HEATHEN,.... Of the
nations round about them, particularly the Chaldeans; meaning their
religious ways, their ways of worship, their superstition and
idol...
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Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not
dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
Ver. 2. _Learn not the way of the heathen._] Their sinful cust...
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_Hear ye the word_, &c. The prophet continues his remonstrances and
exhortations to Judah. He said, at the conclusion of the preceding
chapter, that the Lord would punish, without distinction, all the...
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THE NOTHINGNESS OF IDOLS...
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Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, in becoming
accustomed to their idolatrous worship, AND BE NOT DISMAYED AT THE
SIGNS OF HEAVEN, filled with the fear which caused the Gentile nat...
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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...
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LEARN NOT THE WAY OF THE HEATHEN: the Jews being to live among the
Chaldeans in their captivity, where many of them were already, the
prophet in this sermon admonisheth them against the superstitions...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 12:30; Deuteronomy 12:31; Ezekiel 20:32; Isaiah 47:12;...
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Learn not — The Jews being to live among the Chaldeans in their
captivity, where many of them were already, the prophet admonishes
them against the Chaldean idolatries, who were all much addicted to
a...