Jeremiah 16:20 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 16:20

Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?

KJV

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DBT

Shall a man makegods unto himself, and they are no-gods?

ASV

Shall a man make unto himself gods, which yet are no gods?

WEB

Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”

YLT

Doth man make for himself gods, And they--no gods?

About this book

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Jeremiah 2:11
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
Psalms 115:4–8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Isaiah 37:19
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
Galatians 4:8
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

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This he foretold, but few regarded the prediction; therefore he is to show that he is himself fully satisfied in the truth of it. Others go on in their usual course, but he, in the prospect of these sad times, is forbidden and therefore forbears marriage, mourning for the dead, and mirth.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

We are now sensible that our fathers were cheated in their idolatrous worship; it did not prove what it promised, and therefore what have we to do any more with it?" Note, It were well if the disappointment which some have met with in the service of sin, and the pernicious consequences of it to them, might prevail to deter others from treading in their steps.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Will you ever again be such fools as you have been, to make to yourselves gods which are no gods, when you have a God whom you may call your own, who made you, and is himself the true and living God?" (2.) Honour to God; for he will be known by the judgments which he executes.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(5.) They shall herein give honour to God, and make it to appear that they know both his hand in his providence and his name in his word, and that they are brought to know his name by what they are made to know of his hand,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

indignant protest of Jeremiah against idols. and they (are) no gods-- (Jer 2:11; "They" refers to the idols. A man (a creature himself) making God is a contradiction in terms.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JER 16:20GAL 4:8 1CO 8:4
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JER 16:20GAL 4:8 1TH 4:5
JER 16:20GAL 4:8 EPH 2:11-12
JER 16:20GAL 4:8 1TH 1:9
JER 16:20GAL 4:8 1CO 1:21
JER 16:20ACT 19:26 ACT 17:29
JER 16:20ACT 19:26 ISA 44:10-20
JER 16:20ISA 36:19 JER 49:23

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