Jeremiah 10:16
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.
Updated King James Version
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In Context
15They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
17Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
Cross References
Exodus 34:9And he said, If now I have found grace in your sight, O LORD, let my LORD, I pray you, go among us; for it is a stubborn people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for yours inheritance.
Psalms 16:5The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot.
Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Psalms 119:57You are my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep your words.
Psalms 142:5I cried unto you, O LORD: I said, You are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
Isaiah 19:25Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
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 →