Jeremiah 10:16

“The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.”

"The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name." - Jeremiah 10:16
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What does Jeremiah 10:16 mean?

Jeremiah 10:16 in the King James Version of the Bible reads, "The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The Lord of hosts is his name." This verse is part of a larger passage in the book of Jeremiah that…

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Jeremiah 10:16 - "The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name."
Jeremiah 37:16 - "¶ When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;"
Jeremiah 52:16
Jeremiah 10:5
Jeremiah 16:10 - "¶ And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?"
"¶ When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;" - Jeremiah 37:16
Jeremiah 1: 1-10
Nehemiah 10:2 - "Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,"
Jeremiah 5:16 - "Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men."
Jeremiah 16:1 - "The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,"
Jeremiah 16:20 - "Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?"
Jeremiah 48:16 - "The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast."
1 Chronicles 12:10 - "Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,"
Jeremiah 10:8 - "But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities."
Genesis 16:10
Jeremiah 2:16 - "Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head."
Jeremiah 28:10 - "Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it."
Nehemiah 10:16 - "Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,"
Genesis 10:16 - "And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,"
Jeremiah 16:8 - "Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink."
Jeremiah 10:15 - "They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish."
Jeremiah 10:4 - "They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."
Jeremiah 52:16 - "But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen."
Jeremiah 25:16 - "And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them."
Psalm 10:16-18
"Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah," - Nehemiah 10:2
leviticus 16:7-10
Mark 10:13–16
Jeremiah 22:16 - "He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD."