Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Jeremiah 19:12
That is, a place of slaughter and burials, or a base, ignominious place, or where the noise of drums, and trumpets, and cryings, and yellings shall be heard, as used to be in Tophet
That is, a place of slaughter and burials, or a base, ignominious place, or where the noise of drums, and trumpets, and cryings, and yellings shall be heard, as used to be in Tophet
Verse Jeremiah 19:12. _AND EVEN MAKE THIS CITY AS TOPHET_] A place of slaughter and destruction....
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...
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_
As Topheth had been made unclean (2 Kings 23:10) by Josiah, so shall the houses of Jerusalem be....
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...
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet: AND EVEN MAKE THIS CITY AS TOPHET - i:e., as defiled with dead bodies as Tophet....
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...
AND EVEN MAKE THIS CITY AS TOPHET. — This is an allusive reference partly to the state of the valley of Hinnom as a heap of ruins and rubbish, partly to the meaning of the name Tophet, as a place spat...
כֵּֽן ־אֶעֱשֶׂ֞ה לַ † מָּקֹ֥ום הַ זֶּ֛ה...
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...
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...
As he had said before that the valley would be the place of slaughter, that thence it might take its name, so now he declares the same as to the city; “As then Tophet shall be the valley of slaughter,...
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...
THUS WILL I DO UNTO THIS PLACE, SAITH THE LORD, AND TO THE INHABITANTS THEREOF,.... To the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants, as was done to the earthen bottle, and as before threatened: AND [EVE...
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as Tophet: Ver. 12. _And even make their city as Tophet._] Every whit as abominable and horri...
_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...
THE PARABOLIC ACTION AND ITS EXPLANATION...
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the Inhabitants thereof, as He had now described in detail, AND EVEN MAKE THIS CITY AS TOPHET, as an unclean place, full of rubbish and carcasses...
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...
Jeremiah 19:12 do H6213 (H8799) place H4725 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) make...
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 19:12 LIKE TOPHETH. An overcrowded cemetery. Proper burial is impossible there. ⇐...
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...
Jeremiah 10:13; Jeremiah 11:5...
As Tophet — That is, a place of slaughter and burials....