Jeremía 10:3

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customs: Heb. statutes, or ordinances, are vanity, Jeremiah 10:8, Jeremiah 2:5, Leviticus 18:30, 1 Kings 18:26-28, Matthew 6:7, Romans 1:21, 1 Peter 1:18

one: Isaiah 40:19-31, Isaiah 44:9-20, Isaiah 45:20, Hosea 8:4-6, Habakkuk 2:18, Habakkuk 2:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:4 - General Exodus 23:19 - Thou shalt not seethe a kid Leviticus 26:1 - Ye shall Deuteronomy 4:28 - neither see Judges 17:3 - a graven image 1 Kings 16:13 - vanities 1 Kings 16:26 - their vanities 2 Kings 17:29 - made gods 2 Kings 19:18 - for they were 2 Chronicles 32:19 - the work Psalms 96:5 - For Psalms 115:4 - Their idols Psalms 135:15 - idols Isaiah 36:18 - Hath Isaiah 37:19 - no gods Isaiah 40:20 - chooseth Isaiah 41:7 - the carpenter Isaiah 44:12 - The smith Isaiah 44:14 - heweth Isaiah 46:6 - lavish Hosea 8:6 - the workman Acts 14:15 - from Acts 16:21 - General Acts 17:22 - I perceive Acts 19:26 - that they Galatians 4:8 - ye did Revelation 9:20 - and idols

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the customs of the people are vain,.... Or, "their decrees", or "statutes" o, their determinations and conclusions, founded upon the observation of the stars; or, their "rites and ceremonies" p in religion, in the worship of the sun and moon, and the hosts of heaven. The Syriac version is, "the idols of the people are nothing"; and which appears by what follows:

for one cutteth a tree out of the forest (the work of the hands of the workman) with the axe; not for building, or for burning, but to make a god of; the vanity, stupidity, and folly of which are manifest, when it is considered that the original of it is a tree that grew in the forest; the matter and substance of it the body and trunk of a tree cut down with an axe, and then hewed with the same, and planed with a plane, and formed into the image of a man, or of some creature; and now, to fall down and worship this must be vanity and madness to the last degree; see

Isaiah 44:13.

o חקות "decreta", Targ.; "statua", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt. p Ritus, Vatablus "ceremoniae", Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The customs - Better, as the marg, “the ordinances,” established institutions, “of the peoples, i. e.” pagan nations.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 10:3. The customs of the people are vain — חקות chukkoth; the statutes and principles of the science are vain, empty, and illusory. They are founded in nonsense, ignorance, idolatry, and folly.

One cutteth a tree out of the forest — Isaiah 40:19, and "Isaiah 44:9", &c., which are all parallel places and where this conduct is strongly ridiculed.