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<p class="tab-1">We may conjecture that the prophecy of this chapter was delivered after the first captivity, in the time of Jeconiah or Jehoiachin, when many were carried away to Babylon; for it has a double reference:—I. To those that were carried away into the land of the Chaldeans, a country notorious above any other for idolatry and superstition; and they are here cautioned against the infection of the place, not to learn the way of the heathen (<a class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.1,Jer.10.2" href="/passage/?search=Jer.10.1,Jer.10.2"><span class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.1">Jer. 10:1</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.2">2</span></a>), for their astrology and idolatry are both foolish things (<a class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.3-Jer.10.5" href="/passage/?search=Jer.10.3-Jer.10.5">Jer. 10:3-5</a>), and the worshippers of idols brutish, <a class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.8,Jer.10.9" href="/passage/?search=Jer.10.8,Jer.10.9"><span class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.8">Jer. 10:8</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.9">9</span></a>. So it will appear in the day of their visitation, <a class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.14,Jer.10.15" href="/passage/?search=Jer.10.14,Jer.10.15"><span class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.14">Jer. 10:14</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.15">15</span></a>. They are likewise exhorted to adhere firmly to the God of Israel, for there is none like him, <a class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.6,Jer.10.7" href="/passage/?search=Jer.10.6,Jer.10.7"><span class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.6">Jer. 10:6</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.7">7</span></a>. He is the true God, lives for ever, and has the government of the world (<a class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.10-Jer.10.13" href="/passage/?search=Jer.10.10-Jer.10.13">Jer. 10:10-13</a>), and his people are happy in him, <a class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.16" href="/passage/?search=Jer.10.16">Jer. 10:16</a>. II. To those that yet remained in their own land. They are cautioned against security, and told to expect distress (<a class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.17,Jer.10.18" href="/passage/?search=Jer.10.17,Jer.10.18"><span class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.17">Jer. 10:17</span>, <span class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.18">18</span></a>) and that by a foreign enemy, which God would bring upon them for their sin, <a class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.20-Jer.10.22" href="/passage/?search=Jer.10.20-Jer.10.22">Jer. 10:20-22</a>. This calamity the prophet laments (<a class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.19" href="/passage/?search=Jer.10.19">Jer. 10:19</a>) and prays for the mitigation of it, <a class="bibleref" title="Jer.10.23-Jer.10.25" href="/passage/?search=Jer.10.23-Jer.10.25">Jer. 10:23-25</a>.</p>
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