Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 10:11

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11. This verse is in Chaldee, Jeremiah supplying his countrymen with a formula of reply to Chaldee idolaters in the tongue most intelligible to the latter. There may be also derision intended in imitating their barbarous dialect. ROSENMULLER objects to this view, that not merely the words put in the mouths of the Israelites, but Jeremiah's own introductory words, "Thus shall ye say to them," are in Chaldee, and thinks it to be a marginal gloss. But it is found in all the oldest versions. It was an old Greek saying: "Whoever thinks himself a god besides the one God, let him make another world" ( Psalms 96:5 ). shall perish — ( Isaiah 2:18 ; Zechariah 13:2 ). these heavens —the speaker pointing to them with his fingers. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-12" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-jer-10-003

절 (explains)

bible-text/jer-10-11

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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