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BECAUSE OF ALL - literally, “with reference to all,” limiting the
denunciation to those houses whose roofs had been defiled with altars.
UPON WHOSE ROOFS THEY HAVE BURNED INCENSE - See 2 Kings 23:12,...
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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
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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...
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UPON WHOSE ROOFS. Compare Jeremiah 32:29....
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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_
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_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 ...
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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...
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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 he...
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DEFILED AS THE PLACE OF TOPHET. — A difficulty affecting the
construction, but not the sense, of the passage, makes the rendering
_as the place of Tophet the defiled_ preferable.
UPON WHOSE ROOFS THEY...
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וְ הָי֞וּ בָּתֵּ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם וּ
בָתֵּי֙ מ
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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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 (f) houses
upon whose (g) roofs they have burned incense to all the host...
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Topheth. This sentence was not in St. Jerome's Hebrew copy, but in the
Septuagint (Calmet) with some variations: (Haydock) "All the houses of
the kings of Juda, like the place of Topheth," is added by...
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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...
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He describes, as I have said, more at large what he had briefly
expressed, for he had spoken of the city; but as the belief of that
was difficult, he now enumerates particulars, as though he had said,...
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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...
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AND THE HOUSES OF JERUSALEM,.... Where the common people dwelt:
AND THE HOUSES OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH; the palaces of the king,
princes, and nobles of Judah, one as well as another:
SHALL BE DEFILED...
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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 hea...
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_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...
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and the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, the
various buildings comprising their palaces, SHALL BE DEFILED AS THE
PLACE OF TOPHET, polluted with dead bodies, BECAUSE OF ALL THE...
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THE PARABOLIC ACTION AND ITS EXPLANATION...
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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...
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Under the Judaic law, persons and places were defiled by touching dead
bodies, or any unclean, filthy thing: God threateneth in this sense to
defile Tophet, as it was said before it should be filled w...
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Jeremiah 19:13 houses H1004 Jerusalem H3389 houses H1004 kings H4428
Judah H3063 defiled H2931 place H4725 Tophet H
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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_,...
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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...
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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...
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2 Kings 23:10; 2 Kings 23:12; 2 Kings 23:14; Ezekiel 7:21; Ezekiel