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DISCRETION - Or, understanding. The three attributes ascribed to the
Creator are very remarkable. The creation of the earth, the material
world, is an act of “power;” the “establishing,” i. e., the
or...
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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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WORLD. the habitable world. Hebrew. _tebel._
DISCRETION. understanding....
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Repeated Jeremiah 51:15-19....
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The creation of all things, and in particular the phenomena of the
tempest, are appealed to as signs of Jehovah's supremacy....
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See summary at commencement of the ch....
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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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B. The Incomparable God of Israel Jeremiah 10:6-16
TRANSLATION
(6) There is none like You O LORD; great are You and great is Your
name in power. (7) Who would not fear You, O King of the nations; for...
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_HE HATH MADE THE EARTH BY HIS POWER, HE HATH ESTABLISHED THE WORLD BY
HIS WISDOM, AND HATH STRETCHED OUT THE HEAVENS BY HIS DISCRETION._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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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עֹשֵׂ֥ה אֶ֨רֶץ֙ בְּ כֹחֹ֔ו מֵכִ֥ין
תֵּבֵ֖ל בּ
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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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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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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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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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Jeremiah speaks now again in Hebrew, for he on purpose spoke in
Chaldee, to shew that the ungodly were not to be given way to, if they
blasphemed and wantonly derided the holy name of God. But as it i...
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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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HE HATH MADE THE EARTH BY HIS POWER,.... The Targum considers these
words as a continuation of the answer of the Jews to the Chaldeans,
paraphrasing them thus,
"and so shall ye say unto them, `we wor...
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_He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by
his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion._
Ver. 12. _He hath made the earth by his power._] Here we have...
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_He hath made the earth_, &c. Here follows a noble and lofty
description of God's power and providence, whereby he sets forth his
infinite pre-eminence above all the dead and senseless idols of the
wo...
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He hath made the earth by His power, He hath established the world by
His wisdom, Psalms 136:5; Psalms 93:1, AND HATH STRETCHED OUT THE
HEAVENS BY HIS DISCRETION, spreading out the firmament by His
un...
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THE NOTHINGNESS OF IDOLS...
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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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In this and the next verse the prophet enumerates some particulars
wherein he is transcendently above all creatures which he hath made,
much more above idols, which are the works of man's hands. THE E...
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Jeremiah 10:12 made H6213 (H8802) earth H776 power H3581 established
H3559 (H8688) world H8398 wisdom H2451 out
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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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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 10:11 All false gods SHALL PERISH. They
were created by humans, but the living God MADE and ESTABLISHED THE
WORLD by wisdom
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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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Colossians 1:16; Genesis 1:1; Genesis 1:6; Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 42:5;...