Jeremiah 19 Study Notes
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19:8 This verse repeats the essence of 18:16. See also 49:17.
19:9 So severe would be the conditions of the siege that Judah’s survivors would eat the flesh of their sons and daughters. This cannibalism is attested in the siege of Samaria (2Kg 6:26-29) and in the Babylonian siege in 587 BC (Lm 2:20; 4:10). According to Josephus in Wars of the Jews, this also happened in AD 70 when Jerusalem fell to the Romans.
19:10-11 As the prophet shattered the clay jar, he announced that God would shatter these people and this city as well. This was a symbolic act of warning to Judah. So many corpses would be gathered that there would be no place left to bury the dead but Topheth.
19:12-13 The city will become impure (ritually unclean) and a place where the Lord will no longer stay, like that place Topheth (see note at 7:31).
19:14-15 Judgment will fall on this city (Jerusalem) and its cities, meaning the rest of Judah’s cities.