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Jeremiah 10:2 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 10 · verse 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.Jeremiah 10:2 · King James Version
Jeremiah 10:2 in context
1Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2Thus 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.
3For 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.
4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
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Key words (Strong's)
- dismayedchâthathproperly, to prostrateH2865 →
- heathengôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- heavenshâmayimthe sky (as aloftH8064 →
- saithʼâmarto sayH559 →
- Learnlâmadproperly, to goadH3925 →
- signsʼôwtha signal , as aflag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etcH226 →
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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