Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 19:7
In this place — In this place, among others, I will make void all the counsels that the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, have taken to escape my righteous judgments.
In this place — In this place, among others, I will make void all the counsels that the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, have taken to escape my righteous judgments.
Verse Jeremiah 19:7. _I WILL MAKE VOID THE COUNSEL OF JUDAH_] Probably this refers to some determination made to proclaim themselves _independent_, and pay no more tribute to the Chaldeans. _TO BE ME...
MAKE VOID - The verb used here is that from which “bottle” Jeremiah 19:1 is derived, and as it represents the sound made by the water running out, it would be better translated, “pour out.” Jeremiah p...
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...
FALL BY THE SWORD... ENEMIES. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:17; Deuteronomy 28:25). App-92. LIVES. souls. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
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...
_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 pou...
AND I WILL MAKE VOID, &C.— _And I will dissipate,_ &c. Houbigant....
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...
And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carca...
19:7 void (a-5) Or 'empty,' alluding to the empty 'earthen flagon' of ver. 1....
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...
I WILL MAKE VOID. — The Hebrew verb (_bakak_) is onomatopoetic, as representing the gurgling sound of water flowing from the mouth of a jar, and contains, as stated in the note on Jeremiah 19:1, the r...
וּ֠ בַקֹּתִי אֶת ־עֲצַ֨ת יְהוּדָ֤ה וִ ירוּשָׁ
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...
This amplification further exasperated the minds of the people, — that they in vain trusted that this place would be to them a fortress. For, as we have already stated, they had persuaded themselves t...
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...
AND I WILL MAKE VOID THE COUNSEL OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM IN THIS PLACE,.... The counsel which they took in this place and agreed to, in offering their sons and daughters to idols; and which they took w...
And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcas...
_Therefore, behold, the days come_ And are at no great distance; _that this place shall no more be called Tophet_, &c. In Joshua's time it was called _The valley of the son of Hinnom;_ in after ages,...
And _ J._ will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, frustrating their plans for the defense of their city, AND I WILL CAUSE THEM TO FALL BY THE SWORD BEFORE THEIR ENEMIES AND BY...
THE PARABOLIC ACTION AND ITS EXPLANATION...
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...
In this place, amongst others, I will make void all the counsels that the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem have taken to escape my righteous judgments; I will frustrate all their little a...
Jeremiah 19:7 void H1238 (H8804) counsel H6098 Judah H3063 Jerusalem H3389 place H4725 fall H5307 (H8689) sword...
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 19:7 THE PLANS OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM. Their proposed solution to the threat Babylon poses (see Jeremiah 18:12)....
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...
Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 28:26; Isaiah 28:17; Isaiah 28:18;...