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Jeremiah 10:11-13

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 and understanding (Jeremiah 51:15). The false gods’ “instruction” (Jeremiah 10:8) makes people foolish, while God’s instruction makes people wise.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 10:11. _THUS SHALL YE SAY UNTO THEM_] This is the message you shall deliver to the Chaldean idolaters. _THE GODS THAT HAVE NOT MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH_, even _they_ _shall peri...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This verse is (in the original) in Chaldee. It was probably a proverbial saying, which Jeremiah inserts in its popular form....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THUS SHALL YE SAY, &C. This verse is in Chaldee, to serve as. confession of their faith in their exile. NOT MADE... SHALL PERISH. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia._ Hebrew. _'abadu ye'badu._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See summary at commencement of the ch....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The _v_. is not Hebrew, but Aramaic. Either it is a marginal note, subsequently introduced into the text, where it interrupts the connexion of Jeremiah 10:10_; Jeremiah 10:12_, or it was designed by t...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THUS SHALL YE SAY, &C.— This verse is in the Chaldee language, and it appears here as a kind of parenthesis. Houbigant thinks, that the most probable reason why it is here inserted in the Chaldee, and...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. SHALL PERISH - (, "The idols He shall utterl...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    10:11 (a-0) This verse is in Aramaic....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THUS SHALL YE SAY UNTO THEM. — The verse presents an almost unique phenomenon. It is not, like the rest of the book, in Hebrew, but in Chaldee or Aramaic, the language of the enemies of Israel. Two ex...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ דְנָה֙ תֵּאמְר֣וּן לְהֹ֔ום אֱלָ֣הַיָּ֔א דִּֽי...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thus shall ye say to them, The gods (g) that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. (g) This declares that all that has been sp...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Heaven. This verse is in Chaldean, for the captives to use at Babylon, to defend themselves. It should be in a parenthesis, as it interrupts the discourse. Perhaps it was added during the captivity._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Now, the reason why he bids the Israelites to speak in the Chaldee language is, because they had been led into exile, and were mingled with the Assyrians and Chaldeans. He then required from those des...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THUS SHALL YE SAY UNTO THEM,.... The godly Jews to the idolatrous Chaldeans; and therefore this verse alone is written in the Chaldee language. The Targum prefaces it thus, "this is the copy of the l...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, [even] they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. Ver. 11. _Thus shall ye say unto them._] Con...

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

    _Thus shall ye say unto them_ “This verse is in the Chaldee language, and it appears here as a kind of parenthesis. Houbigant thinks that the most probable reason why it is here inserted in the Chalde...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus shall ye say unto them, the Jews being given an argument in the very tongue of Aramaic idolaters who were trying to seduce them to commit idolatry, THE GODS THAT HAVE NOT MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE NOTHINGNESS OF IDOLS...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SAY UNTO THEM, viz. to your great lords, the Babylonians, when they shall solicit you to worship idols. THE GODS THAT HAVE NOT MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH: this seems to have some allusion to a say...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 10:11 Thus H1836 say H560 (H8748) gods H426 not H3809 made H5648 (H8754) heavens H8065 earth...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 2:18; Jeremiah 10:15; Jeremiah 51:18; Lamentations 3:66;...

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