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Jeremiah 10:16 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 10 · verse 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.Jeremiah 10:16 · King James Version
Jeremiah 10:16 in context
14Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
16The 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.
17Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- inheritancenachălâhproperly, something inheritedH5159 →
- portionchêleqproperly, smoothnessH2506 →
- formeryâtsarto mould into a formH3335 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- JacobYaʻăqôbJaakob, the Israelitish patriarchH3290 →
- hoststsâbâʼa mass of persons , especially reg. organized forwarH6635 →
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The prophet Isaiah, when he prophesied of the captivity in Babylon, added warnings against idolatry and largely exposed the sottishness of idolaters, not only because the temptations in Babylon would be in danger of drawing the Jews there to idolatry, but because the afflictions in Babylon were designed to cure them…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16