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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 51:17

Verse Jeremiah 51:17. Every man is brutish by his knowledge] He is brutish for want of real knowledge; and he is brutish when he acknowledges that an idol is any thing in the world. These verses, from fifteen to nineteen, are transcribed from Jeremiah 10:12.

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See also Jeremiah 51:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A transcript of Jeremiah 10:12....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 50-51 BABYLON These two final Chapter s contain a great prophecy concerning Babylon, her overthrow and doom. The fifty-first chapter closes with the statement “thus far are the words of Jere...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:58. BABYLON. This long and monotonous prophecy, which is without order or logical development of ideas, is largely a compilation from the prophetic writings of Jeremiah an...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IS BRUTISH BY, &C.. is become too brutish to know. CONFOUNDED. put to shame. BREATH. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    These _vv_. are taken almost _verbatim_from Jeremiah 10:12-16. The object of the insertion is to emphasize the powerlessness of Babylon's idols against Jehovah....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. Divine Destruction Jeremiah 51:11-26 TRANSLATION (11) Polish the arrows! Fill the shields! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the king of the Medes; for His purpose is against Babylon to destroy i...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding. HE HATH MADE THE EARTH BY HIS POWER ... WHEN HE UTTERETH HI...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (15-19) HE HATH MADE THE EARTH BY HIS POWER... — The five verses are a reproduction of Jeremiah 10:12, fitted in here to enhance the majesty of Him Who decrees the destruction of Babylon, and appoints...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נִבְעַ֤ר כָּל ־אָדָם֙ מִ דַּ֔עַת הֹבִ֥ישׁ כָּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV BABYLON Jeremiah 50:1, Jeremiah 51:1 "Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces."- Jeremiah 50:2 THESE Chapter s present phenomena analogous to those of...

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

    In the second movement of the prophecy which deals with Babylon's doom and Israel's responsibility, Jeremiah first repeated his declarations concerning the determination of Jehovah to bring about the...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Every man is senseless by [his] (k) knowledge; every goldsmith is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them. (k) (Jeremiah 10:14)....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Every man, &c. That is, every maker of idols, however he boasts of his knowledge and skill, does but shew himself a fool in pretending to make a god. (Challoner) (Wisdom xiv. 18.) --- By his, or "by...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Again I beg the Reader to remark, how the Lord points to his discriminating grace. The portion of Jacob is not like others. This people, saith Jehovah, I have formed for myself, they shall show forth...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    This verse is usually explained, as though the Prophet pointed out how men glide into errors and fancies, even because they seek to be wise according to their own notions; and Paul, in the first chapt...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    EVERY MAN IS BRUTISH BY [HIS] KNOWLEDGE; EVERY FOUNDER IS CONFOUNDED BY THE GRAVEN IMAGE: FOR HIS MOLTEN IMAGE [IS] FALSEHOOD, AND [THERE IS] NO BREATH IN THEM. Jeremiah 10:14....

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them. Ver. 17. _Every man is brutish._] See...

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

    _O thou that dwellest upon many waters_ The river Euphrates ran through the midst of Babylon, and there was a prodigious lake of water on one side of the city, besides other lesser waters near it, so...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE THREAT OF JEHOVAH IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    IS BRUTISH BY HIS KNOWLEDGE: Or, is more brutish then to know...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secur...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 51:17 Everyone H120 dull-hearted H1197 (H8738) knowledge H1847 metalsmith H6884 (H8802) shame H3001 (H8689

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD AS CREATOR IS COMPARED WITH FOOLISH MAN WHO CAN ONLY MAKE IDOLS WHICH ARE FUTILE AND LIFELESS (JEREMIAH 51:15). These verses are a repetition of Jeremiah 10:12 where YHWH as the genuine God of cre...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon, continued. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Seraiah. CONCLUSION: Let no nation think it will exempt them from God's judgment that they have been execu...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 51:7. _Babylon is a golden cup in the hands of Jehovah._ All the captives and allies are intoxicated with it. All nations bow to her idols, submit to her power, wonder at her riches, applaud...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:15 Stated also in Jeremiah 10:12. God alone created and rules the EARTH. ISRAEL forgot this

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—For _Chronological Notes,_ see foregoing chapter. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 51:27. “_The kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenas_.” These nations of Western As...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 51:1 AGAINST THEM THAT DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEM THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME. The Hebrew has _lēb-kāmai_, which is _Kasdim_, or _Chaldea, _written in the cypher called Athbash (see...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:19; Habakkuk 2:18; Habakkuk 2:19; Isaiah 44:18;...

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