Jeremiah 10:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Jeremiah 10:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 46:7
They 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.
Isaiah 40:19-20
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. …
Psalms 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms 135:15
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 44:12
The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

Topics

Adultery Gentiles Gods Groves Heathen High Places Iconoclasm Idolatry

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

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 of their idolatry. Thus the prophet Jeremiah here arms people against the idolatro…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. fasten ... move not--that is, that it may stand upright without risk of falling, which the god (!) would do, if left to itself (Is 41:7).