George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 19:5
Mind. Perhaps the people stupidly thought thus to honour him; but God pointedly condemns such sacrifices.
Mind. Perhaps the people stupidly thought thus to honour him; but God pointedly condemns such sacrifices.
Verse Jeremiah 19:5. _OFFERINGS UNTO BAAL_] A general name for all the popular idols; Baal, Moloch, Ashtaroth, c....
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...
TO BURN. consume. Hebrew. _saraph._ App-43. BURN THEIR SONS, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 18:21). BURNT OFFERINGS. Compare Jeremiah 7:31. MY MIND. Hebrew My heart. Figure of speech _Anthro...
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...
_of Baal_ See on Jeremiah 2:8. _Topheth_is the corresponding word in Jeremiah 7:31....
Substantially identical with ch. Jeremiah 7:31-32. See notes there and on Jeremiah 2:23....
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...
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offering...
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...
THE HIGH PLACES OF BAAL. — Baal, as in Jeremiah 2:23, is identified with Molech, and the terms in which the guilt of the people and its punishment are described are all but identical with those of Jer...
וּ בָנ֞וּ אֶת ־בָּמֹ֣ות הַ בַּ֗עַל לִ
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...
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire [for] burnt offerings to Baal, which I (c) commanded not, nor spoke [it], neither came [it] into my mind: (c) By which is de...
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...
He at last adds, that that place was _filled with the blood of innocents_; for there they killed their children. And by this circumstance Jeremiah again amplifies the wickedness of the people; for the...
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...
THEY HAVE ALSO BUILT THE HIGH PLACES OF BAAL,.... Or, they have even built, c. and so the words explain what is before suggested of their idolatry these were the temples in which they placed his image...
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire [for] burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake [it], neither came [it] into my mind: Ver. 5. _Which I com...
_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...
they have built also the high places of Baal, the chief idol of the Canaanites, TO BURN THEIR SONS WITH FIRE FOR BURNT OFFERINGS UNTO BAAL, WHICH I COMMANDED NOT NOR SPAKE IT, NEITHER CAME IT INTO MY...
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...
This and the following verse contain another great sin of this people, with the punishment which God proportioneth to it. The sin in the general was idolatry, but a most barbarous species of it, menti...
Jeremiah 19:5 built H1129 (H8804) places H1116 Baal H1168 burn H8313 (H8800) sons H1121 fire H784 offerings...
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...
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 28:3; 2 Kings 17:17; Daniel 2:29; Deuteronomy 12:31;...
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...