Idol-making as satire: a tree cut out of the forest, worked with the axe, decked with silver and gold, fastened with nails so it will not topple; the images are like a scarecrow in a cucumber field, unable to speak or walk, 'they must needs be borne, because they cannot go.' Against them stands the incomparable God ('Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King') whose wrath makes the earth tremble, who made the earth by his power and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

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Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Jeremiah — Jeremiah overview

A. 1–16 A Tree Cut from the Forest, Fastened with Hammer and Nails
B. 17–25 Gather Up Thy Wares: the Way of Man Is Not in Himself

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Psalms 1353 verses
- Psalms 135:7He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
- Psalms 135:15The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
- Psalms 135:16They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;
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Psalms 1152 verses
- Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
- Psalms 115:5They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
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Leviticus 182 verses
- Leviticus 18:3After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
- Leviticus 18:30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.
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Psalms 962 verses
- Psalms 96:4For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.
- Psalms 96:5For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.
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Deuteronomy 322 verses
- Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- Deuteronomy 32:9For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
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Jeremiah 312 verses
- Jeremiah 31:15Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
- Jeremiah 31:35Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name:
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Isaiah 461 verse
- Isaiah 46:7They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
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Leviticus 201 verse
- Leviticus 20:23And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.