Jeremiah 10:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. ”

Jeremiah 10:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rather, “They are vanity, a work of mockery,” deserving only ridicule and contempt.
Jeremiah 10:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Folly of Idolatry, This passage (like Jeremiah 9:23-26 ) interrupts the connexion of Jeremiah 9:22 and Jeremiah 10:17 ; its denunciation of the idols of the heathen as utterly futile for go...
Jeremiah 10:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

vanity. The common appellative for idols. errors . mockeries. the time of their visitation. See note on Jeremiah 8:12 .
Jeremiah 10:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He confirms the same thing. What he called before falsehood, שקר, shikor, he calls now vanity, הבל ebel. They are vanity, he says. He had said that they were falsehood, which means, tha...
Jeremiah 10:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Jeremiah 10:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. The work of errors - deceptions; from a Hebrew root, to stutter; then meaning to mock. In the ti...
Jeremiah 10:15 - 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 generall...
Jeremiah 10:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The work of errors. — Better, a work of mockery, i.e., worthy of that and of that only, the word being apparently substituted, after Jeremiah’s manner, for the technical word, not unlike in sou...
Jeremiah 10:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER VI THE IDOLS OF THE HEATHEN AND THE GOD OF ISRAEL Jeremiah 10:1-16 THIS fine piece is altogether isolated from the surrounding context, which it interrupts in a very surprising manner....
Jeremiah 10:15 - 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 Jeremiah 10:1...
Jeremiah 10:15 - 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 betwee...
Jeremiah 10:15 - 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 pla...
Jeremiah 10:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They are vanity ,.... They are the fruit of the vain imagination of men; to worship them shows the vanity of the human mind; and they are vain things to trust to: and the work of errors ; of erron...
Jeremiah 10:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish. Ver. 15. They are vanity. ] Vanity, in its largest extent, is properly predicated of them. And th...
Jeremiah 10:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Every man is brutish in his knowledge This is spoken of the makers of idols, whose skilfulness as workmen made them foolish enough to attempt to make gods, and who afterward acted still more foolis...
Jeremiah 10:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Solemn Charge to Israel; The Folly of Idolatry. B. C. 606. 1 Hear ye the word which the...
Jeremiah 10:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They are vanity, and the work of errors; either in their rise, as springing from men of corrupt minds, or the foundation of them; a metonymy of the effect; teachers and encouragers of lies , Hab...
Jeremiah 10:15 - 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 10:1-16 ). This passage, in a sequence of vers...
Jeremiah 10:15 - 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...
Jeremiah 10:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 10:1-2 . 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 he...
Jeremiah 10:15 - 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,...
Jeremiah 10:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Whoever wrote the prophecy in Jeremiah 10:1-24 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 S...
Jeremiah 10:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Nothingness of Idols
Jeremiah 10:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 12:21 ; Acts 14:15 ; Deuteronomy 32:21 ; Isaiah 2:18-21 ; Isaiah 41:24 ; Isaiah 41:29 ; Jeremiah 10:11 ; Jeremiah 10:8 ; Jeremiah 14:22 ; Jeremiah 51:18 ; Jeremiah 8:12 ; Jeremia...
Jeremiah 10:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Visitation — When God shall come to reckon with Babylon and her idols.

Jeremiah 10:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 10:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 10:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 10:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 10:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 10:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 10:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 10:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 10:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 10:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jeremiah 10:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 10:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 10:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 10:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 10:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 10:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 10:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 10:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 10:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 10:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 10:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 10:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 10:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 10:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 10:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes