Jeremía 10:9

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9 Silfurplötur eru fluttar frá Tarsis, og gull frá Úfas, þeir eru verk trésmiðsins og gullsmiðsins. Klæðnaður þeirra er gjörður af bláum og rauðum purpura, verk hagleiksmanna eru þeir allir.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Silver: Jeremiah 10:4

Tarshish: 1 Kings 10:22, Ezekiel 27:12

Uphaz: Daniel 10:5

are all: Psalms 115:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:4 - General Exodus 32:3 - General Deuteronomy 4:28 - neither see Judges 8:26 - purple Judges 17:4 - two hundred 2 Chronicles 32:19 - the work Isaiah 40:19 - General Isaiah 41:7 - the carpenter Isaiah 46:6 - lavish Jeremiah 1:16 - worshipped Ezekiel 27:7 - blue and purple Daniel 3:1 - made Habakkuk 2:19 - it is Revelation 9:20 - and idols

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish,.... In Cilicia, where the Apostle Paul was born; according to Josephus, as Jerom says, it was a country in India. The Targum renders it, from Africa, and calls it silver "rolled up", or "covered"; so the Vulgate Latin; such was beaten with a hammer into plates, and might be rolled up for better convenience of shipment; and with which they covered and decked their idols, to make them look glittering and pompous, and command some awe and reverence from the common people. The Arabic version renders it, "solid silver"; it being the same word from whence the firmament of heaven has its name, or the wide expanse; hence we render it "spread", stretched, and drawn out into plates. The Syriac version is, "the best silver"; as very likely that from Tarshish was reckoned.

And gold from Uphaz; called sometimes "the gold of Uphaz"; Daniel 10:5 or "Fess"; perhaps the same with the gold of Ophir, Job 28:16 and so the Targum here calls it, "gold from Ophir"; to which agrees the Syriac version; and was esteemed the best gold.

The work of workmen, and of the hands of the founder; melter or refiner, being first purified by him from dross, and then wrought into plates, and polished, and fitted for the idol; and all this being owing to the art and workmanship of men, shows the brutishness and ignorance of the people, in worshipping it as a god. Blue and purple is their clothing; not the clothing of the workmen, but of the idols; these colours seem to be chosen to dazzle the eyes of the populace, and cause them to entertain a high opinion of them; the "blue" being the colour of the heavens, and the "purple" what is wore by kings; and so both may denote their deity and dominion. But, alas!

they are all the work of cunning men: both the idols, and their clothing; especially the latter is meant, which were curiously wrought and embroidered by men skilful in that art.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, “It is a piece of wood (Jeremiah 10:8 note); yea, beaten silver it is, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz: it is the work etc.”

Tarshish ... Uphaz - See the marginal reference and Genesis 10:4. Possibly Uphaz was a place in the neighborhood of the River Hyphasis.

Blue and purple - Both colors were purple, from dyes obtained from shellfish: but the former had a violet, the latter a red tinge.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 10:9. Brought from Tarshish — Some suppose this to be Tartessus in Spain, from which the Phoenicians brought much silver. Uphaz, Calmet thinks to be the river Pison; some think Ophir is intended.

Blue and purple is their clothing — These were the most precious dyes; very rare, and of high price.