Jeremiah 10:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name. ”

• Jeremiah 10:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The portion, of Jacob - i. e., Yahweh. He is not like gods made by a carpenter and goldsmith. Of all things - literally, of the all, the universe. The rod of his inheritance - See Psalms...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  The (i) portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name. (i) By these words, portion and rod,...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  The Portion of Jacob. Reference to Pentateuch ( Numbers 18:20 ; Deuteronomy 32:9 ). Jacob. Not Israel, because the natural seed is spoken of as in Deuteronomy 32:9 . See notes on Genesis 32:2...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  We have said before, that superstitions cannot be from the heart and boldly rejected, except the true God be known; for the heathens, even when they disapproved of the opinions of the vulgar, y...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things ; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name. The Portion of Jacob is not like them - E...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The Portion of Jacob— Upon the principles of heathen theology, every nation was committed to the care and superintendency of its own tutelary god, which was styled its portion, on account of the...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name. Portion - from a Hebrew root, 'to divide' х...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The portion of Jacob. — As in Psalms 16:5 ; Psalms 119:57 , God is described as the “portion,” i.e., as the treasure and inheritance of His people. He is no powerless idol, but the former, i.e...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - 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....

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The portion of Jacob is not like them ,.... Like those idols, vain, and the work of errors, or shall perish; even the true God, who is the portion of his people, of Jacob, whom he has chosen and red...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The portion of Jacob [is] not like them: for he [is] the former of all [things]; and Israel [is] the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [is] his name. Ver. 16. The Portion of Jacob is not l...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The portion of Jacob is not like them There is no comparison between senseless idols and the great Creator of all things, who has chosen the posterity of Jacob for his peculiar people, and has prom...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Solemn Charge to Israel; The Folly of Idolatry. B. C. 606.       1 Hear ye the word which the...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  OLBHeb; The portion of Jacob; a periphrasis for the true God, who vouchsafeth to be the portion of his people and to be so called, Deuteronomy 32:9 Psalms 16:5 , and many other places, becaus...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - 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,...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Nothingness of Idols

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 32:9 ; Exodus 19:5 ; Isaiah 45:7 ; Isaiah 47:4 ; Isaiah 47:6 ; Isaiah 51:15 ; Isaiah 54:5 ; Jeremiah 10:12 ; Jeremiah 31:35 ; Jeremiah 32:18 ; Jeremiah 50:34 ; Jeremiah 51:19...

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• Jeremiah 10:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Portion — God, who vouchsafes to be the portion of his people. The former — Idols are things framed or formed, but God is the former of all things. The rod of his inheritance — So called, because t...

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