Jeremiah 19:4
This place — Either this city, or this valley, which they had turned to an use quite contrary to the end for which God gave it them.... [ Continue Reading ]
This place — Either this city, or this valley, which they had turned to an use quite contrary to the end for which God gave it them.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 it, mentioned also Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 32:35, where it is said, they made their sons and their d... [ Continue Reading ]
In this place — In this place, among others, I will make void all the counsels that the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, have taken to escape my righteous judgments.... [ Continue Reading ]
As Tophet — That is, a place of slaughter and burials.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then — Jeremiah had now dispatched the errand upon which God had sent him to Tophet, coming back by God's direction, he stands in the court, which was common to all people, where the most might hear.... [ Continue Reading ]