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Yeremia 10:3

Sebab yang disegani bangsa-bangsa adalah kesia-siaan. Bukankah berhala itu pohon kayu yang ditebang orang dari hutan, yang dikerjakan dengan pahat oleh tangan tukang kayu?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gentiles;   Idolatry;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Forests;   Idol;   Idolatry;   Worship, False;   Worship, True and False;   The Topic Concordance - Idolatry;   Learning;   Vanity;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Nation;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Idol, Idolatry;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Axe;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ax, Ax Head;   Chisel;   Tools;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Arts and Crafts;   Jeremiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ax, Axe;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ax (Axe);   Custom (2);   Jeremy, the Epistle of;   Tongs;   Worker;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Axe;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Artisans;   Jeremiah, Epistle of;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebab yang disegani bangsa-bangsa adalah kesia-siaan. Bukankah berhala itu pohon kayu yang ditebang orang dari hutan, yang dikerjakan dengan pahat oleh tangan tukang kayu?
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena syariat segala bangsa itu sia-sialah adanya, karena kayu juga adanya barang yang telah ditetak di dalam hutan, suatu perbuatan tukang yang telah diperbuat dengan lengan tersingsing.

Contextual Overview

1 Heare the worde of the Lord that he speaketh vnto thee, O thou house of Israel. 2 Thus saith the Lord: ye shal not learne after the maner of the heathen, and ye shall not be afraide for the tokens of heauen: for the heathen are afraide of suche. 3 Yea all the customes and lawes of the gentiles are nothing but vanitie: They hewe downe a tree in the wood with the handes of the workeman, and fashion it with the axe. 4 They couer it ouer with golde or siluer, they fasten it with nailes and hammers, that it moue not. 5 It standeth as stiffe as the Palme tree, it can neither speake nor go one foote, but must be borne: Be not ye afraide of suche, for they can do neither good nor euill. 6 But there is none lyke vnto thee O Lorde, and great is the name of thy power. 7 Who would not feare thee, O king of the gentiles? for thyne is the dominion: for among all the wise men of the gentiles, and in all their kingdomes, there is none that may be likened vnto thee. 8 They are altogether brutishe and vnwise in this one thing: wood is the teaching of vanitie. 9 Siluer is brought out of Tharsis, and beaten to plates, and gold from Ophir, a worke that is made with the hande of the craftesman, and they are clothed with yelowe silke and scarlet: all these are the worke of cunning men. 10 But the Lorde is a true God, a liuing God, and an euerlasting kyng: if he be wroth, the earth shaketh, all the gentiles may not abide his indignation.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

customs: Heb. statutes, or ordinances, are vanity, Jeremiah 10:8, Jeremiah 2:5, Leviticus 18:30, 1 Kings 18:26-28, Matthew 6:7, Romans 1:21, 1 Peter 1:18

one: Isaiah 40:19-31, Isaiah 44:9-20, Isaiah 45:20, Hosea 8:4-6, Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:4 - General Exodus 23:19 - Thou shalt not seethe a kid Leviticus 26:1 - Ye shall Deuteronomy 4:28 - neither see Judges 17:3 - a graven image 1 Kings 16:13 - vanities 1 Kings 16:26 - their vanities 2 Kings 17:29 - made gods 2 Kings 19:18 - for they were 2 Chronicles 32:19 - the work Psalms 96:5 - For Psalms 115:4 - Their idols Psalms 135:15 - idols Isaiah 36:18 - Hath Isaiah 37:19 - no gods Isaiah 40:20 - chooseth Isaiah 41:7 - the carpenter Isaiah 44:12 - The smith Isaiah 44:14 - heweth Isaiah 46:6 - lavish Hosea 8:6 - the workman Acts 14:15 - from Acts 16:21 - General Acts 17:22 - I perceive Acts 19:26 - that they Galatians 4:8 - ye did Revelation 9:20 - and idols

Cross-References

Jeremiah 51:27
Set vp a token in the lande, blowe the trumpets among the heathen, prouoke the nations agaynst her, call the kyngdomes of Ararat, Menni, and Ascanez, agaynst her, set the prince agaynst her, bryng as great a sort of terrible horses agaynst her as yf they were grashoppers.
Ezekiel 27:14
They of the house of Thogarma brought vnto thee at the time of thy marte, horses, coursers, and mules.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the customs of the people are vain,.... Or, "their decrees", or "statutes" o, their determinations and conclusions, founded upon the observation of the stars; or, their "rites and ceremonies" p in religion, in the worship of the sun and moon, and the hosts of heaven. The Syriac version is, "the idols of the people are nothing"; and which appears by what follows:

for one cutteth a tree out of the forest (the work of the hands of the workman) with the axe; not for building, or for burning, but to make a god of; the vanity, stupidity, and folly of which are manifest, when it is considered that the original of it is a tree that grew in the forest; the matter and substance of it the body and trunk of a tree cut down with an axe, and then hewed with the same, and planed with a plane, and formed into the image of a man, or of some creature; and now, to fall down and worship this must be vanity and madness to the last degree; see

Isaiah 44:13.

o חקות "decreta", Targ.; "statua", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt. p Ritus, Vatablus "ceremoniae", Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The customs - Better, as the marg, “the ordinances,” established institutions, “of the peoples, i. e.” pagan nations.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 10:3. The customs of the people are vain — חקות chukkoth; the statutes and principles of the science are vain, empty, and illusory. They are founded in nonsense, ignorance, idolatry, and folly.

One cutteth a tree out of the forestIsaiah 40:19, and "Isaiah 44:9", &c., which are all parallel places and where this conduct is strongly ridiculed.


 
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