Jeremiah 10:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Customs

1 Peter 1:18

One

Habakkuk 2:18

General references

Exodus 20:4

Isaiah 40:19

Acts 16:21

Bible References

Customs

And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.

Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity found your fathers in me that they removed far off from me, and went after vanity, and they became vain?

And they watched my watches so as not to do from the laws of abomination which were done before you, and ye shall not be defiled in them: I am Jehovah your God.

And they will take the bullock which was given to them, and do, and they will call upon the name of Baal, from morning even to noon, saying, O Baal, answer us. And no voice, and none answered. And they will leap upon the altar which was made.

And praying, talk ye not vainly as the nations; for they think that by their profaneness of speech they shall be listened to.

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers

One

The artificer cast the carved image, and the founder will spread it out with gold, and he smelted chains of silver.

They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed.

Assemble ye together and come; draw ye near together, the escaped of the nations: they knew not lifting up the wood of their carved image, and praying to God he will not save.

They made kings, and not from me: and they made princes, and I knew not: their silver and their gold they made to them images to cut off.

What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?

General references

Thou shalt not make to thee a carved image, and every appearance that is in the heavens above, and that is in the earth beneath, and that is in the water under the earth.

The artificer cast the carved image, and the founder will spread it out with gold, and he smelted chains of silver.

And they announce customs, which it is not lawful for us to receive, nor do, being Romans.