Jeremiah 19:12

12 Thus will I do to this place, says the LORD, and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Tofet:

Jeremiah 19:12 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 19:12

Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the
inhabitants thereof
To the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants, as was done to the earthen bottle, and as before threatened: and [even],
or also, make this city as Tophet;
as full of slaughtered men and women as that had been of the blood of innocent children; and as filthy, abominable, and execrable a place as that; and to lose its name, as that is foretold it should, ( Jeremiah 19:6 ) ; and as Jerusalem did, after the desolation of it by Hadrian, as Jerom observes; for what was built upon the spot afterwards was by the emperor called Aelia, after his own name.

Jeremiah 19:12 In-Context

10 Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,

11 and shall tell them, Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Tofet, until there be no place to bury.

12 Thus will I do to this place, says the LORD, and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Tofet:

13 and the houses of Yerushalayim, and the houses of the kings of Yehudah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Tofet, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the sky, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.

14 Then came Yirmeyahu from Tofet, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house, and said to all the people: