Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Jeremiah 10:5
Upright as the palm tree] RV 'like a palm tree, of turned work.' These idols are as stiff and lifeless.
Upright as the palm tree] RV 'like a palm tree, of turned work.' These idols are as stiff and lifeless.
Verse Jeremiah 10:5. _THEY ARE UPRIGHT AS THE PALM TREE_] As straight and as stiff as the trees out of which they are hewn....
THEY ARE UPRIGHT ... - Rather, “They are like a palm tree of turned work, i. e.” like one of those stiff inelegant pillars, something like a palm tree, which may be seen in oriental architecture. Some...
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...
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...
UPRIGHT. stiff. BORNE. carried....
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...
_palm tree, of turned work_ Substitute mg., comparing, as above, Bar 6:70 ("scarecrow"). See introd. note for this attitude towards idols. From "they must needs" to "do good" is placed after Jeremiah...
THEY ARE UPRIGHT, &C.— _For they are like the trunk of the palm-tree,_ &c. Houb. "They are inflexible, immoveable, fixed, without action or motion, like the trunk of a palm-tree;" a comparison which a...
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...
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. UPRIGHT, ...
UPRIGHT AS THE PALM TREE. — Better, perhaps, _A pillar in a garden of gourds are they._ The Hebrew word translated “upright” has two very different, though not entirely unconnected, meanings — (1) “tw...
כְּ תֹ֨מֶר מִקְשָׁ֥ה הֵ֨מָּה֙ וְ לֹ֣א יְדַבֵּ
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
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...
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...
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...
_Tree. The ancient statues were ill-formed, (Diodorus 4.) before Dedalus brought the art to greater perfection, and gave them a living attitude._...
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...
He goes on with the same subject, and borrows his words from the forty — fourth chapter of Isaiah (Isaiah 44:0); for the passage is wholly similar. Jeremiah, being later, was induced to take the words...
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...
THEY ARE UPRIGHT AS THE PALM TREE,.... Being nailed to a post, or fastened to a pillar, or set upon a pedestal, and so stand erect without bending any way; and are like a palm tree, which is noted for...
They [are] upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also [is it] in them to do good. Ver. 5....
_One cutteth_ down _a tree_, &c. The prophet here exposes the folly of men's worshipping the work of their own hands, by arguments similar to those which are used by Isaiah 44:10; where see the notes....
THE NOTHINGNESS OF IDOLS...
They, the idols, ARE UPRIGHT AS THE PALM-TREE, they are like a statue of turned work, resembling a palm-tree, BUT SPEAK NOT, Psalms 115:5, for all their possessing a mouth; THEY MUST NEEDS BE BORNE, c...
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...
THEY ARE UPRIGHT AS THE PALM TREE; the nature of which is to grow upright and tall, without any branchings, till it comes to the top, thereby possibly representing majesty. BUT SPEAK NOT; looking as i...
Jeremiah 10:5 upright H4749 tree H8560 speak H1696 (H8762) must H5375 (H8800) carried H5375 (H8735) go...
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...
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...
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 10:3 IDOLS are made by people, so idols have no power to SPEAK or act. Serving them makes no sense (Isaiah 4
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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 12:2; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Habakkuk 2:19; Isaiah 41:23;...