Jeremías 19:1

1 Así dijo el SEÑOR: Ve y compra una vasija de barro del alfarero, y toma contigo a algunos de los ancianos del pueblo y de los ancianos de los sacerdotes;

Jeremías 19:1 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus saith the Lord, go and get a potter's earthen bottle
From the potter's house, where he had lately been; and where he had been shown, in an emblematic way, what God would do in a short time with the Jews; and which is here further illustrated by this emblem: or, "go and get", or "buy, a bottle of the potter, an earthen one" ^F11; so Kimchi; called in Hebrew "bakbuk", from the gurgling of the liquor poured into it, or out of it, or drank out of it, which makes a sound like this word ^F12: and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the
priests;
the word "take" is rightly supplied by our translators, as it is by the Targum, the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions; for these words are not to be connected with the former, as in the Vulgate Latin version; as if the prophet was to get or buy the earthen bottle of the elders of the people, and of the priests; but those who were the greatest and principal men of the city, and of which the Jewish sanhedrim consisted, were to be taken by the prophet to be witnesses of what were said and done, to see the bottle broke, and hear what Jeremiah from the Lord had to say; who, from their years, it might be reasonably thought, would seriously attend to those things, and would report them to the people to great advantage; and the Lord, who sent the prophet to them, no doubt inclined their hearts to go along with him; who, otherwise, in all probability, would have refused; and perhaps would have charged him with impertinence and boldness, and would have rejected his motion with contempt, as foolish or mad.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (vrx ruwy qbqb tynqw) "emas, [vel] emito oenophorum a figulo testaceum", Munster, Tigurine version. So Kimchi and Ben Melech.
F12 Vid. Stockium, p. 150.

Jeremías 19:1 In-Context

1 Así dijo el SEÑOR: Ve y compra una vasija de barro del alfarero, y toma contigo a algunos de los ancianos del pueblo y de los ancianos de los sacerdotes;

2 y sal al valle de Ben-hinom, que está a la entrada de la puerta de los tiestos, y proclama allí las palabras que yo te diré.

3 Dirás: "Oíd la palabra del SEÑOR, reyes de Judá y habitantes de Jerusalén. Así dice el SEÑOR de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel: 'He aquí, traeré tal calamidad sobre este lugar, que a todo el que oiga de ella le retiñirán los oídos.

4 'Porque me han abandonado, han hecho extraño este lugar y han ofrecido sacrificios en él a otros dioses, que ni ellos, ni sus padres, ni los reyes de Judá habían conocido, y han llenado este lugar de sangre de inocentes,

5 y han edificado los lugares altos de Baal para quemar a sus hijos en el fuego como holocaustos a Baal, cosa que nunca mandé, ni de la cual hablé, ni me pasó por la mente;