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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Jeremiah 19:10

Then shall thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, thereby calling their attention to the symbolism of his action,

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to section. Jeremiah 19:10 links on to Jeremiah 19:2. This and the next sub-section (Jeremiah 19:14 _to Jeremiah 20:6_

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Symbolic Act and Its Interpretation Jeremiah 19:10-13 TRANSLATION (10) Then you shall shatter the bottle in the presence of the men who are accompanying you (11) and you shall say to them, Thu...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, THEN SHALT THOU BREAK THE BOTTLE - a symbolical action, explained in . IN THE SIGHT OF THE MEN - the elders of the peop...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN SHALT THOU BREAK THE BOTTLE... — Those who heard the prophet and saw his act were not unfamiliar with the imagery. The words of Psalms 2:9 had portrayed the Messianic king as ruling over the nati...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שָׁבַרְתָּ֖ הַ בַּקְבֻּ֑ק לְ עֵינֵי֙ הָֽ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah summoned witnesses, that the confirmation of the prophecy might be more fully attested to the people. With regard to the history of this transaction we may add, that he was first sent to the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN SHALL THOU BREAK THE BOTTLE IN THE SIGHT OF THE MEN THAT GO WITH THEE. The earthen bottle he was bid to get of the potter, Jeremiah 19:1; this he is ordered to break in pieces before the eyes of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, Ver. 10. _Then shalt thou break the bottle._] That the eyes of the bystanders and beholders may affect their hearts. _Non a...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then shalt thou break the bottle_, &c. This was intended to be a symbolical representation of the ruin threatened against them, used in order to strike the beholders more powerfully than mere words c...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-15 The potter's vessel, after it is hardened, can never be pieced again when it is broken. And as the bottle was broken, so shall Judah and Jerusalem be broken by the Chaldeans. No human hand can...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The earthen bottle, which, JEREMIAH 19:1, he was commanded to carry with him into the valley of the son of Hinnom, (where he now was,) in the sight of the ancients of the priests, and of the people, t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 19:10 break H7665 (H8804) flask H1228 sight H5869 men H582 go H1980 (H8802)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 19:10 BREAK THE FLASK. A symbolic act representing Jerusalem’s defeat. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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_,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Jeremiah 48:12; Jeremiah 51:63; Jeremiah 51:64...

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