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Verse Jeremiah 10:9. _BROUGHT FROM TARSHISH_] Some suppose this to be
_Tartessus_ in _Spain_, from which the Phoenicians brought much
silver. _Uphaz, Calmet_ thinks to be the river _Pison_; some think...
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Or, “It is a piece of wood (Jeremiah 10:8 note); yea, beaten silver
it is, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz: it is the
work etc.”
TARSHISH ... UPHAZ - See the marginal reference an...
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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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TARSHISH. See note on 1 Kings 10:22.
UPHAZ. Probably. Ophir. Compare 1 Kings 9:28; 1 Kings 10:11....
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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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TARSHISH, AND—UPHAZ— _Tarshish_ was a place at this time
celebrated through all the East for its commerce. Calmet has
endeavoured to prove, in his dissertation upon Ophir, that the _gold
of Uphaz_ was...
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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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Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from
Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue
and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning...
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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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TARSHISH. — As elsewhere in the Old Testament, Spain, the Tartessus
of the Greeks (Genesis 10:4; Jonah 1:3; Ezekiel 27:12), from whence
Palestine, through the Phoenicians, was chiefly supplied with si...
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כֶּ֣סֶף מְרֻקָּ֞ע מִ תַּרְשִׁ֣ישׁ
יוּבָ֗א וְ זָהָב֙ מֵֽ אוּפָ֔ז
מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה חָרָ֖שׁ וִ ידֵ֣י צֹורֵ֑ף...
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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
Jeremiah 10:1-10
We are here intr...
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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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Silver beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold (f) from
Uphaz, the work of the craftsman, and of the hands of the goldsmith:
blue and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work...
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_Ophaz, or Phison, (Genesis ii. 11.; Calmet) the coast of Pegu,
Faprobana, &c. (Menochius)_...
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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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The Prophet, anticipating what might be said, refers to the splendor
and pomp of idols, and declares that all was frivolous and extremely
puerile. Whence was it that the world shewed so much honor to...
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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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SILVER SPREAD INTO PLATES IS BROUGHT FROM TARSHISH,.... In Cilicia,
where the Apostle Paul was born; according to Josephus, as Jerom says,
it was a country in India. The Targum renders it, from Africa...
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Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from
Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue
and purple [is] their clothing: they [are] all the work of cunni...
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_Silver spread into plates_ To cover the images, and make them appear
as if made of massy silver; _is brought from Tarshish_ A port of
Spain, to which the merchants of Tyre and Sidon traded; of which...
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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 customs...
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SILVER SPREAD INTO PLATES; it was not wood washed with gold, nor massy
silver or gold, but covered over _with plates of silver or gold_,
EXODUS 39:3. FROM TARSHISH; from some remote place, probably fr...
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Jeremiah 10:9 Silver H3701 plates H7554 (H8794) brought H935 (H8714)
Tarshish H8659 gold H2091 Uphaz H210 work H4639 craftsman H2796 hands
H3027 metalsmith H6884 (H8802) Blue H8504 purple H713 clothin...
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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, comp...
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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 10:8 Taking INSTRUCTION from IDOLS is
foolish. Idols may be made of the finest materials by the finest
craftsman, but they remain human creations. TARSHISH represents the
end...
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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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1 Kings 10:22; Daniel 10:5; Ezekiel 27:12; Jeremiah 10:4; Psalms 115:4...
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Tarshish — Is the proper name of a sea — town in Cilicia, and
being a noted port, it is usually put for the ocean, and may signify
any place beyond the sea. Uphaz — Probably the best gold came from
th...