Wesley's Explanatory Notes
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.
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.
Verse Jeremiah 19:4. _ESTRANGED THIS PLACE_] Ye have devoted my temple to a widely different purpose from that for which it was erected....
HAVE ESTRANGED THIS PLACE - They have not recognized the sanctity of this place, but have treated it as a strange place, by worshipping in it strange gods. INNOCENTS - i. e., guiltless persons....
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
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...
FORSAKEN ME. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:20; Deuteronomy 32:15). Compare Jeremiah 5:7; Jeremiah 5:19. App-92....
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...
_have estranged_ have refused to recognise its claims. _they and their fathers and the kings of Judah_ rather, as LXX, _they and their fathers; and the kings of Judah have filled, etc_., generalizing...
AND HAVE ESTRANGED THIS PLACE— _And have turned this place to improper uses._ Houbigant....
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...
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 th...
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...
ESTRANGED THIS PLACE] i.e. alienated it from the worship of God....
HAVE ESTRANGED THIS PLACE. — _i.e.,_ have alienated it from Jehovah its true Lord, and given it to a strange god. The words refer specially to the guilt of Manasseh (2 Chronicles 33:4). THE BLOOD OF I...
יַ֣עַן ׀ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עֲזָבֻ֗נִי וַֽ יְנַכְּר֞וּ אֶת...
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...
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;...
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...
_Profaned. Literally, "rendered strange." (Haydock) --- I have no farther regard for it. --- Innocents: their own children, ver. 5., and chap. vii. 31._...
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...
The reason is given why God would so severely deal with that place. We indeed know that hypocrites are ever ready with their answer; as soon as God threatens them, they bark and bring forward their ev...
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...
BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME,.... My worship, as the Targum; they had apostatized from God, relinquished his service, neglected and despised his word and ordinances, and left the religion they had be...
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 thi...
_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...
THE PARABOLIC ACTION AND ITS EXPLANATION...
Because they have forsaken Me and have estranged this place, devoting it to the worship of strange gods, AND HAVE BURNED INCENSE IN IT UNTO OTHER GODS, WHOM NEITHER THEY NOR THEIR FATHERS HAVE KNOWN,...
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...
BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN ME; the laws, statutes, and ordinances which God had given them, to direct them both in their religious behaviour towards him, and in their civil conversations. HAVE ESTRANG...
Jeremiah 19:4 forsaken H5800 (H8804) alien H5234 (H8762) place H4725 incense H6999 (H8762) other H312 gods...
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...
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,...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 19:4 BLOOD OF INNOCENTS. Likely child sacrifices made to Molech (Jeremiah 7:31)....
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_,...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 33:4; 2 Kings 21:16; 2 Kings 21:4; 2 Kings 21:5;...