Jeremiah 10:4 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁴ They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ They deck [the idol] with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers so it will not fall apart or move around.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Common English Bible

⁴ It’s overlaid with silver and gold, and fastened securely with hammer and nails so it won’t fall over.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ He has adorned it with silver and gold. He has put it together with nail and hammer, so that it will not fall apart.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ He hath decked it with silver and gold: he hath put it together with nails and hammers, that it may not fall asunder.

Jeremiah 10:4 Cross References

Psalm 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Psalm 135:15

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Isaiah 44:12

The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

Isaiah 46:6

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

Isaiah 46:7

They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

Hosea 13:2

And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

Habakkuk 2:19

Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.