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More Than Just 'Customs'
Commentators clarify that the Hebrew word for "customs" is better translated as "statutes" or "religious ordinances." Jeremiah is not critiquing everyday habits but the foundational religious systems of pagan nations. He declares their core beliefs and worship practices to be utterly worthless and empty.
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 10:3
18th Century
Theologian
The customs—A better rendering, as the marginal note indicates, is “the ordinances,” established institutions, “of the peoples,” that is, pa…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 10:3
19th Century
Bishop
The customs of the people. —Better, ordinances of the peoples.
The prophet is speaking, not of common customs, but…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 10:3–4
19th Century
Preacher
Those ancient prophets seemed to take delight in heaping scorn upon the god-making of the heathen. Even the heathen poets mocked the god-making; on…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 10:3
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet seems to break off from his subject and even to reason inconclusively; for he had said in the last verse, Learn not the rites of th…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 10:3
17th Century
Pastor
For the customs of the people are vain Or, "their decrees", or "statutes" F15 , their determinations and concl…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 10:1–16
17th Century
Minister
The prophet shows the glory of Israel's God, and exposes the foolishness of idolaters. Charms and other attempts to obtain supernatural help, or to…