Jeremiah 19:1 to Jeremiah 20:6. The symbol of the broken vessel and the consequences to the prophet See introd. note on ch. 18. Certain parts of this ch. are probably editorial insertions. See notes below. The date may be placed in Jehoiakim's reign, and, from the distinctness with which Babylon is... [ Continue Reading ]
_buy a potter's earthen bottle_ The point in ch. 18 (the potter's clay) was the power of God to alter the destinies of a people at any moment, just as the potter's work (Jeremiah 19:4) was made "again another vessel." The special lesson _here_is that there may come a time in the history of a nation... [ Continue Reading ]
_the valley of the son of Hinnom_ See on ch. Jeremiah 7:31. _the gate Harsith_ rather, as mg. _the gate of potsherds_. Apparently so called from the fragments of broken pottery cast here as refuse "or perhaps crushed, as it is now, on a flat rock, with heavy stone rollers, into dust from which a cem... [ Continue Reading ]
_his ears shall tingle_ Cp. 2 Kings 21:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 goes there, (_b_) the subject-matter of the passage is drawn to a large extent from other portions of t... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 from Manasseh's acts (2 Kings 21:16; 2 Kings 24:4). _innocents_ not children, the sacrifice of who... [ Continue Reading ]
_of Baal_ See on Jeremiah 2:8. _Topheth_is the corresponding word in Jeremiah 7:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
Substantially identical with ch. Jeremiah 7:31-32. See notes there and on Jeremiah 2:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
_make void_ lit. as mg. _empty out_. The Hebrew verb is that from which is derived the word for "bottle" in Jeremiah 19:1. It has been thought that Jeremiah here suited the action to the word, and poured out the contents on the ground, as he spoke. The latter part of the _v_. is taken from Jeremiah... [ Continue Reading ]
The _v_. is taken from Deuteronomy 28:53. Cp. Leviticus 26:29. For the fulfilment see Lamentations 4:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
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_) are thought to be taken from the memoirs of Jeremiah by Baruch (see Intr. pp. xli. f.), as in them the prophet is spoken of in the third person. "The people …... [ Continue Reading ]
_and they shall bury … to bury_ The absence of connexion shews this (not found in LXX) to be an insertion from Jeremiah 7:32. Gi. and Schmidt omit the clause and onwards to end of Jeremiah 19:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
As Topheth had been made unclean (2 Kings 23:10) by Josiah, so shall the houses of Jerusalem be.... [ Continue Reading ]
_upon whose roofs_ Cp. Jeremiah 32:29; 2 Kings 23:12 (in which place the meaning probably is "on the roof [of the Temple]"); Zephaniah 1:5. These were used for festivals (Judges 16:27), for conference (1 Samuel 9:25 f.), for exercise (2 Samuel 11:2), for booths at the feast of tabernacles (Nehemiah... [ Continue Reading ]
Jeremiah has now returned from the fulfilment of his commission.... [ Continue Reading ]
_all her towns_ all the others belonging to Judah. Cp. Jeremiah 34:1. _have made their neck stiff_ See on Jeremiah 7:26.... [ Continue Reading ]