Jeremiah 10:5
they will set them up that they may not move; it is wrought silver, they will not walk,
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
4They are beautified with silver and gold, they fix them with hammers and nails;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28And ye shall there serve other gods, the works of the hands of men, wood and stones, which + 4:28 Gr. shall not see, etc.cannot see, nor can they hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Isaiah 16:12And it shall be to thy shame, (for Moab is wearied at the altars,) that he shall go in to the idols thereof to pray, but they shall not be at all able to deliver him.
Isaiah 44:9But they that framed false gods did not then hearken; and they that graved images are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed
Isaiah 45:20Assemble yourselves and come; take counsel together, ye that escape of the nations: they that set up wood, even their graven image, have no knowledge, nor they who pray to gods that do not save.
Isaiah 46:7They bear it upon the shoulder, and go; and if they put it upon its place, it remains, it cannot move: and whosoever shall cry to it, it cannot hear; it cannot save him from trouble.
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 →