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Jeremiah 10:4

They are beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

In Context

3For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.

5they will set them up that they may not move; it is wrought silver, they will not walk,

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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 →

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