Till there be no place. — Better, because there is no room — i.e., for want of space the dead should be buried even in the spot which the worshippers of Molech looked on as sacred, and the worshippers of Jehovah as accursed, and which both therefore would willingly avoid using as a place of sepulture.
Verse Jeremiah 7:32. _THE VALLEY OF SLAUGHTER_] The place where the slaughtered thousands of this rebellious people shall be cast, in order to their being burnt, or becoming food for the beasts of th...
Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered their innocents, they shall themselves fall before t...
THE PROPHET'S TEMPLE ADDRESS (7-9) CHAPTER 7 _ 1. Amend your ways and your doings (Jeremiah 7:1) _ 2. No prayer-answer to be expected (Jeremiah 7:16) 3. Sacrifices rejected; Obedience demanded (J
JEREMIAH 7:29 TO JEREMIAH 8:3. MOURNING FOR JUDAH'S DEAD. Let Jerusalem mourn, and raise a dirge on the heights (where she sinned by her idolatry), because of the near approach of the punishment for t...
SLAUGHTER. Compare Jeremiah 19:6; Jeremiah 12:3.Zechariah 11:4; Zechariah 11:7. Occurs only in Jeremiah and Zechariah....
For a recurrence of the substance of this passage see ch. Jeremiah 19:5 f., Jeremiah 19:11....
"Where they have butchered their children, they shall themselves be butchered, hence the name Valley of Slaughter will replace the older name." Pe. _till there be no place_to bury] mg. _because there...
BUT THE VALLEY OF SLAUGHTER— The reason of this name is given in the words immediately following; _for they shall bury in Tophet till there be no place:—"_Till it is intirely filled, and there is no v...
B. The Future Destruction Jeremiah 7:32 to Jeremiah 8:3 TRANSLATION (32) Therefore behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when it shall no longer be called the Topheth or the valley of the son...
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there b...
7:32 place. (d-38) Or 'for want of another place;' and so ch. 19.11....
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
TILL THERE BE NO PLACE] rather, 'for want of room's (elsewhere). The carnage of war shall extend far beyond the valley. Some think that the immediate result of this discourse was the trial of the pro...
לָכֵ֞ן הִנֵּֽה ־יָמִ֤ים בָּאִים֙ נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֔ה...
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
With this section the second movement in commissioning the prophet commences. It deals first with the sins of worship. These are first denounced. At the gate of the Temple the prophet rebuked the peop...
_Place, elsewhere. (Haydock) --- This was verified when Nabuchodonosor and Titus besieged the city. (Calmet) --- The latter was quite shocked. (Josephus, Jewish Wars vi. 14.) See chap. xix., and xxxi....
Tophet had been a remarkable place on several occasions. It was called Tophet because it had been a place of slaughter. And it had been a charnel house, or sepulchre for burying in; and also a place o...
The Prophet denounces a punishment, though the Jews thought that they deserved a reward. The case is the same with the Papists at this day, who thoughtlessly boast, when they heap together many abomin...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD,.... And they were coming on apace; a little longer, and they would be come; for it was but a few years after this ere Jerusalem was besieged and taken...
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be...
_It shall be no more called Tophet, but The valley of Slaughter_ King Josiah first of all _defiled_ this place, as the text speaks, 2 Kings 23:10; that is, polluted it by burying dead bodies in it, by...
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called, Tophet, nor the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, or Ben-hinnom, BUT THE VALLEY OF SLAUGHTER, a name applied to it as the...
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
29-34 In token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded, and separated from God, as she had been separated to him. The heart is the place in which God has chosen to put his name; but...
IT SHALL NO MORE BE CALLED TOPHET, NOR THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM: they were called so after this, and are known by those names to this day; but the meaning is, they shall acquire a name from ano...
Jeremiah 7:32 days H3117 coming H935 (H8802) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 called H559 (H8735) Tophet...
CONTENTS: The message in the gate of the Lord's house. Coming desolations because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is common for those who are furthest from God to boast themselves...
Jeremiah 7:2. _Stand in the gate of the Lord's house,_ and call the people to repentance by arguments arrayed in all the glory and force of truth. This was the chief gate of entrance. The temple had t...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:32 When Babylon conquers Jerusalem, the dead bodies will be heaped so high that the valley will be renamed the VALLEY OF SLAUGHTER (Jeremiah 19:1
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. 1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. _Keil_ regards chaps. 7 to 10 as later addresses, delivered during Josiah’s reign. _Bagster_ places an interval of merely two years between...
EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10.—Severe rebukes of idolatry alternating with announcements of the impending judgment. The circumstances connected with this discourse, or part thereof, appear to be detailed in Jer...
So chapter 7. King Josiah, who was reigning at the beginning of Jeremiah's ministry, in the eighteenth year of his reign, ordered the temple restored. It had fallen into disrepair. It sort of lay in r...
2 Kings 23:10; Ezekiel 6:5; Jeremiah 19:11; Jeremiah 19:13; Je