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Verse Jeremiah 19:5. _OFFERINGS UNTO BAAL_] A general name for all the
popular idols; Baal, Moloch, Ashtaroth, c....
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CHAPTER 19
The Broken Bottle
_ 1. The broken bottle and the message (Jeremiah 19:1) _
2. The fate announced in the court of the Lord's house (Jeremiah
19:14)
Jeremiah 19:1. He was to get
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JEREMIAH 19:1 TO JEREMIAH 20:6. THE EARTHENWARE FLASK; JEREMIAH IN THE
STOCKS. This section seems to be editorially grouped with the last
because of the further reference to pottery; the original prop...
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TO BURN. consume. Hebrew. _saraph._ App-43.
BURN THEIR SONS, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 18:21).
BURNT OFFERINGS. Compare Jeremiah 7:31.
MY MIND. Hebrew My heart. Figure of speech _Anthro...
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Substantially identical with ch. Jeremiah 7:31-32. See notes there and
on Jeremiah 2:23....
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_of Baal_ See on Jeremiah 2:8. _Topheth_is the corresponding word in
Jeremiah 7:31....
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These _vv_. are probably an editorial insertion, for (_a_) the message
which God was to give the prophet in the valley of Ben-Hinnom
(Jeremiah 19:2) is here given him (Jeremiah 19:3 ff.) before he goe...
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III. THE BROKEN VESSEL Jeremiah 19:1 to Jeremiah 20:6
In the parable of the potter and his clay the point was the
possibility of remaking a vessel which has not met with approval; in
chapter 19 the em...
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In Jeremiah 18 the special lesson was the power of God to alter at any
moment the destinies of a people. Here, on the other hand, it is
taught that the time may come when the only alteration must take...
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THE HIGH PLACES OF BAAL. — Baal, as in Jeremiah 2:23, is identified
with Molech, and the terms in which the guilt of the people and its
punishment are described are all but identical with those of Jer...
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וּ בָנ֞וּ אֶת ־בָּמֹ֣ות הַ בַּ֗עַל לִ
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CHAPTER XII
THE BROKEN VESSEL - A SYMBOL OF JUDGMENT
Jeremiah 19:1
THE result of his former address, founded upon the procedure of the
potter, had only been to bring out into clearer distinctness t...
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WIDESPREAD CORRUPTION
Jeremiah 5:1-6; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 20:1-18; Jeremiah 21:1-14;
Jeremiah 22:1-30; Jeremiah 23:1-40; Jeremiah 24:1-10; Jeremiah
25:1-38;...
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Jeremiah was now commissioned to go forth into the valley of the son
of Hinnon, taking with him a potter's vessel. His message there was of
judgment. Because the people had forsaken Jehovah, and had s...
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They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with
fire [for] burnt offerings to Baal, which I (c) commanded not, nor
spoke [it], neither came [it] into my mind:
(c) By which is de...
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_Mind. Perhaps the people stupidly thought thus to honour him; but God
pointedly condemns such sacrifices._...
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There are several weighty circumstances which strike our m in d, on
reading this sermon of Jeremiah. Let the Reader observe in the first
place, the Persons whom the Prophet was to gather to hear it: t...
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He at last adds, that that place was _filled with the blood of
innocents_; for there they killed their children. And by this
circumstance Jeremiah again amplifies the wickedness of the people;
for the...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20.
Chapter s 19 and 20 shew us the judgment of Jerusalem announced in
terms that require little explanation; and we have in chapter 20 a
sample of the...
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THEY HAVE ALSO BUILT THE HIGH PLACES OF BAAL,.... Or, they have even
built, c. and so the words explain what is before suggested of their
idolatry these were the temples in which they placed his image...
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They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with
fire [for] burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake
[it], neither came [it] into my mind:
Ver. 5. _Which I com...
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_Say, Hear, &c., O kings of Judah_ See note on Jeremiah 17:20.
_Behold, I will bring evil upon this place_ That is, upon Judah and
Jerusalem, so surprising and so dreadful that _whosoever heareth, his...
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they have built also the high places of Baal, the chief idol of the
Canaanites, TO BURN THEIR SONS WITH FIRE FOR BURNT OFFERINGS UNTO
BAAL, WHICH I COMMANDED NOT NOR SPAKE IT, NEITHER CAME IT INTO MY...
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THE PARABOLIC ACTION AND ITS EXPLANATION...
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1-9 The prophet must give notice of ruin coming upon Judah and
Jerusalem. Both rulers and ruled must attend to it. That place which
holiness made the joy of the whole earth, sin made the reproach and...
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This and the following verse contain another great sin of this people,
with the punishment which God proportioneth to it. The sin in the
general was idolatry, but a most barbarous species of it, menti...
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Jeremiah 19:5 built H1129 (H8804) places H1116 Baal H1168 burn H8313
(H8800) sons H1121 fire H784 offerings...
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THE LESSON OF THE POTTER'S VESSEL (JEREMIAH 19:1).
Jeremiah was now called on to perform a prophetic ritual through which
he would vividly depict what was to happen to Judah and Jerusalem.
This too wa...
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CONTENTS: Sign of potter's house, concluded. Coming calamities
CHARACTERS: Jeremiah, Kings of Judah.
CONCLUSION: Let men great and small know that the Lord of Hosts is
able to do what He threatens,...
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Jeremiah 19:1. _Take of the ancients of the people, and of the
ancients of the priests,_ that aged men might have weight in reforming
the bloody worship of the idolaters.
Jeremiah 19:2. _The valley of...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—See notes to preceding chapter for
_Chronology_, &c. _Vide_ also Introductory Notes to chap. 20.
GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 19:2. “_Valley of the Son of
Hinnom_,...
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EXPOSITION
With this chapter, Jeremiah 19:1 of the next ought undoubtedly to be
connected to complete the narrative. Jeremiah here comes before us
performing another symbolical action. By breaking a p...
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Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle (Jeremiah
19:1),
Take one of the bottles that the potter has made. Clay bottles.
and take the old men of the people, and of the priests; And...
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2 Chronicles 28:3; 2 Kings 17:17; Daniel 2:29; Deuteronomy 12:31;...
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To burn — This and the following verse, contain another great sin of
this people, with the punishment which God proportions to it. The sin
in the general was idolatry, but a most barbarous species of...