Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 10:11 - 10:11

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 10:11 - 10:11


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Say unto them, viz. to your great lords, the Babylonians, when they shall solicit you to worship idols.



The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth: this seems to have some allusion to a saying common among those Greeks that held one supreme Deity, Let him that saith he is a god make another world. Here is noted both how frail they are,



they shall perish; and how weak they are, they could not make



the heavens or the earth. This verse is writ in the Chaldean tongue, and not in the Hebrew, that when they came among them that did worship their idols, they might openly and plainly profess the true God in that language, which the enemies understood better than they did the Hebrew, and that in such kind of bold language as this; Let all those gods perish from off the earth, and under the heavens, that were not able to make either. It is an imprecation upon their idols.