Jeremiah 19:12
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This is what I will do to this place and to those who live here, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.
Read Jeremiah 19:12 Using Other Translations
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
Thus will I do to this place, declares the LORD, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.
This is what I will do to this place and its people, says the LORD . I will cause this city to become defiled like Topheth.
What does Jeremiah 19:12 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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.
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