Jeremiah 10:4
They are beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
5they will set them up that they may not move; it is wrought silver, they will not walk,
Cross References
Psalms 115:4a I will pay my vows to the Lord, in the presence of all his people.
Isaiah 40:19Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt it over, and made it a similitude?
Isaiah 44:12For the artificer sharpens the iron; he fashions the idol with an axe, and fixes it with an awl, and fashions it with the strength of his arm: and he will be hungry and weak, and will drink no water.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 10:2-17
Solemn Charge to Israel; The Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: 2 Thus saith the Lord , Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5… Read the whole commentary →