Jeremiah 19:12

12 Thus will I do to this place, says the Lord, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.

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 you shall break the jug in the sight of those 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, as one breaks a potter's vessel, so that it can never be mended. In Topheth they shall bury until there is no more room to bury.

12 Thus will I do to this place, says the Lord, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.

13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Topheth—all the houses upon whose roofs offerings have been made to the whole host of heaven, and libations have been poured out to other gods.

14 When Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people: