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Jeremiah 10:8-9

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 ends of the earth. The location of Uphaz is unknown.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 10:8. _THE STOCK_ IS _A DOCTRINE OF VANITIES._] Dr. _Blayney_ translates,-"The wood itself is a rebuker of vanities." The very tree out of which the god is hewn demonstrates the vanity...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BRUTISH - Jeremiah 10:21 and foolish Theirs was the brutishness of men in a savage state, little better than mere animals: their folly that of stupidity. THE STOCK ... - Rather, the instruction of id...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Omitted, most probably rightly, by LXX. See above....

  • 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

    _together_ rather, _all together_, one and all. _the instruction … a stock_ lit. _the instruction of idols is wood_, i.e. "is no better than the idol itself: idolatry is destitute of moral or spiritu...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT THEY ARE ALTOGETHER BRUTISH, &C.— _But they are altogether foolish, and have received the instruction of those which are nothing but wood._ Houb. _THE STOCK IS A DOCTRINE OF VANITIES_— The true me...

  • 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

    But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. THEY ARE ALTOGETHER - rather, all alike (Maurer). BRUTISH - even the so-called "wise" men () of the Gentiles are...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    10:8 stock. (e-16) Or 'wood is an instruction of vanity.'...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE STOCK, etc.] RV 'the instruction of idols, it is but a stock': an idol is wood, and can never get beyond it....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ALTOGETHER. — Literally, _in one,_ probably in the sense _in one word, in one fact, sc.,_ that which follows in the next clause. THE STOCK IS A DOCTRINE OF VANITIES. — Better, inverting the subject a...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ בְ אַחַ֖ת יִבְעֲר֣וּ וְ יִכְסָ֑לוּ מוּסַ֥ר

  • 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

    But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the stock [is] a (e) doctrine of vanities. (e) Because the people thought that to have images was a means to serve God, and to bring them to the knowledg...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Vanity, and shews them clearly to be foolish (Calmet) and wicked. (Haydock)_...

  • 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

    The Prophet shews here, in one sentence, that the wisest in the whole world could be proved guilty of the greatest madness, or of a twofold folly, because they willingly worshipped the trunks of trees...

  • 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

    BUT THEY ARE ALTOGETHER BRUTISH AND FOOLISH,.... In comparison of the Lord, there is no knowledge and wisdom in them, this is a certain fact; they are verily brutish and foolish; or they are one and a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities. Ver. 8. _But they are altogether brutish and foolish._] The wise men are, for that, when they knew there was but on...

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

    _But they are altogether brutish_ Or, _all alike brutish._ They that make images, saith the psalmist, Psalms 115:8, _are like unto them_, equally stupid and insensible. _The stock is a doctrine of van...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But they are altogether brutish and foolish, the heathen are all alike in their stupidity, they have sunk to the level of brutes because they have severed their connection with the true God; THE STOCK...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE NOTHINGNESS OF IDOLS...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    ALTOGETHER: _ Heb._ in one, or at once...

  • 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

    THEY ARE ALTOGETHER BRUTISH: the awe that the idol doth impress upon carnal men's minds, and thereby taking them off from a due apprehension of the essence of God, doth keep them between such hope and...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 10:8 altogether H259 dull-hearted H1197 (H8799) foolish H3688 (H8799) idol H6086 worthless H1892 doctrine H414

  • 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

    Habakkuk 2:18; Hosea 4:12; Isaiah 41:29; Isaiah 44:19; Jeremiah 10:14

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