Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; Ver. 1. _Thus saith the Lord._] By the former type of a potter and his vessel, God had showed the Jews what he could do to them - viz., break them at his pleasure... [ Continue Reading ]
And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which [is] by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, Ver. 2. _And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom._] See Jeremiah 7:3, that where the Jews had sinned, there they might be sentenced. _ Which is... [ Continue Reading ]
And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle. Ver. 3. _Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Judah,_] _i.e., _ O... [ Continue Reading ]
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; Ver. 4. _Because they have forsaken me._] Jeremiah 16:11 . _... [ Continue Reading ]
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 commanded not._] _Reprobatur voluntarius cultus, et factitiae religiones._ See Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter. Ver. 6. _This place shall no more._] See Jeremiah 7:32. Things are repeated, that they may be the better observed.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. Ver. 7. _An... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof. Ver. 8. _And I will make this city desolate._] See Jeremiah 18:10 .... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them. Ver. 9. _And I will cause them to eat the flesh._] T... [ Continue Reading ]
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 alia ratio Sacramentorum est._... [ Continue Reading ]
_And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as [one] breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury [them] in Tophet, till [there be] no place to bury._ Ver. 11. _That cannot be made whole again._] Heb., C... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as Tophet: Ver. 12. _And even make their city as Tophet._] Every whit as abominable and horrid; a very hell above ground.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods. Ver. 13. _And the houses of Jerusalem._]... [ Continue Reading ]
Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house; and said to all the people, Ver. 14. And he stood in the court of the Lord's house.] A place of greatest concourse of people; and where he might meet with many hearers. Here he... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words. Ver. 15. _Because they have hardened their necks._] Which may seem p... [ Continue Reading ]