--- title: "Bullinger" description: "the way of the heathen. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 18:3 ; Leviticus 20:23 ). heathen = nations. customs = statutes, or ordinances. people = pe" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/jeremiah/10" --- **the way of the heathen.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 18:3](../../../kjv/leviticus/18/3) ; [Leviticus 20:23](../../../kjv/leviticus/20/23) ). **heathen** = nations. **customs** = statutes, or ordinances. **people** = peoples. **vain** = a breath. **one cutteth a tree** = it [is only] a tree which one cutteth. **upright** = stiff. **borne** = carried. **there is none like, &c.** See note on [Exodus 15:11](../../../kjv/exodus/15/11) . **Thy name.** See note on [Psalms 20:1](../../../kjv/psalms/20/1) . **Who . . . ?** Words quoted in "the song of Moses and the Lamb" ([Revelation 15:3](../../../kjv/revelation/15/3) , [Revelation 15:4](../../../kjv/revelation/15/4) ). **Tarshish.** See note on [1 Kings 10:22](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/22) . **Uphaz.** Probably = Ophir. Compare [1 Kings 9:28](../../../kjv/1-kings/9/28) ; [1 Kings 10:11](../../../kjv/1-kings/10/11) . **the living God.** Both words in plural, referring to the triune God. **everlasting king** = king of the ages, or, of eternity. **Thus shall ye say, &c.** This verse is in Chaldee, to serve as a confession of their faith in their exile. **not made . . . shall perish.** Note the Figure of speech *Paronomasia.* Hebrew. *'abadu ye'badu.* **world** = the habitable world. Hebrew. *tebel.* **discretion** = understanding. **wind.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 . **confounded** = put to shame. **breath.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 . **vanity.** The common appellative for idols. **errors** = mockeries. **the time of their visitation.** See note on [Jeremiah 8:12](../../../kjv/jeremiah/8/12) . **The Portion of Jacob.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Numbers 18:20](../../../kjv/numbers/18/20) . [Deuteronomy 32:9](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/9) ). **Jacob.** Not Israel, because the natural seed is spoken of as in [Deuteronomy 32:9](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/9) . See notes on [Genesis 32:28](../../../kjv/genesis/32/28) ; [Genesis 43:6](../../../kjv/genesis/43/6) . **Former** = Framer. **The LORD of hosts.** See note on [Jeremiah 6:6](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/6) . **Gather up** = Gather in. Occurs only here. **wares** = bundle. For that is all they would be able to take with them. **inhabitant** = inhabitress. Put for "the daughter of Zion". **fortress.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), for the city Jerusalem. **I will sling.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), for all that is signified by it. Compare [Isaiah 22:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/22/17) , [Isaiah 22:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/22/18) . **find it so** = discover the truth of it. **me.** Zion now speaks in view of the coming deportation; or, Jeremiah voices the calamity. **a grief:** or, my affliction. **and I** = but I. **tabernacle** = tent, or dwelling. **children** = sons. **pastors** = shepherds, or rulers. **are become.** This points to Jehoiakim's reign. **the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* (with' *eth)* = Jehovah Himself. App-4 . **noise** = voice. **bruit** = rumour. French *bruit,* a voice, from Breton (Celtic) *bruchellein,* to roar (as a lion). Compare Greek. *bruchao-mai.* **north.** Compare [Jeremiah 1:15](../../../kjv/jeremiah/1/15) ; [Jeremiah 5:15](../../../kjv/jeremiah/5/15) ; [Jeremiah 6:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/22) , &c. **dragons** = jackals. **is not in** = belongs not to. **it is not.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "nor". **direct** = establish. **with** = in. **families.** Some codices read "kingdoms". Compare [Psalms 79:6](../../../kjv/psalms/79/6) . **Thy name** = Thee (emphatic). 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