Jeremiah 19:2-12

2 and go out ¹to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.

3 You shall say, ²'Hear the word of the LORD, ³O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that ⁴the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.

4 ⁵Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; ⁶and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

5 ⁷and have built the high places of Baal ⁸to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, ⁹which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind--

6 therefore, ¹⁰behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or ¹¹the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

7 And in this place ¹²I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, ¹³and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. ¹⁴I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.

8 And I will make this city ¹⁵a horror, ¹⁶a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.

9 ¹⁷And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor ¹⁸in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.'

10 "Then ¹⁹you shall break ²⁰the flask in the sight of the men who go with you,

11 and shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, ²¹as one breaks a potter's vessel, ²²so that it can never be mended. ²³Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.

12 Thus will I do to this place, declares the LORD, and to its inhabitants, making this city ²⁴like Topheth.

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Jeremiah 19:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 19

In this chapter is foreshadowed, represented, and confirmed, the destruction of Jerusalem, by the breaking of a potter's vessel the prophet had in his hand; and by the place where he was bid to do this, and did it. The order for it, and the witnesses of it, and the place where it was done, are declared in Jer 19:1,2; the proclamation there of Jerusalem's ruin is made, Jer 19:3; the cause of it, their apostasy, idolatry, and shedding of innocent blood, Jer 19:4,5; the great slaughter of them by the sword and famine, Jer 19:6-9; and how easy, and irresistible, and irrecoverable, their destruction would be, are signified by the breaking of the bottle, Jer 19:10,11, when Jerusalem for its idolatry would become as defiled a place as Tophet, where the prophet was, Jer 19:12,13; from whence he came to the temple, and there repeated the proclamation of the evil that should come upon that city, and all the towns around it, Jer 19:14,15.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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1. See Joshua 15:8
2. Jeremiah 17:20
3. See Jeremiah 13:13
4. 1 Samuel 3:11; 2 Kings 21:12
5. See Jeremiah 1:16
6. 2 Kings 21:16; See Jeremiah 2:34
7. Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 32:35; Leviticus 18:21
8. Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 32:35; Leviticus 18:21
9. Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 32:35; Deuteronomy 17:3
10. Jeremiah 7:32
11. ver. 2
12. [Isaiah 19:3]
13. [Leviticus 26:17]
14. See Jeremiah 7:33
15. See Jeremiah 18:16
16. See Jeremiah 18:16
17. Leviticus 26:29; Deuteronomy 28:53; Isaiah 9:20; Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 4:10; Ezekiel 5:10
18. Deut. 28:53, 55, 57
19. [Jeremiah 51:63, 64]
20. ver. 1
21. Psalms 2:9; Isaiah 30:14; Lamentations 4:2
22. [Proverbs 6:15]
23. Jeremiah 7:32
24. [2 Kings 23:10]

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Jeremiah 19:2-12

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Jeremiah 19:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 19

Cross References 24