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, note.
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...
UPON WHOSE ROOFS. Compare Jeremiah 32:29....
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_
_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 ...
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...
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...
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 flat roofs were easily used as gathering places: see e.g. Judges 16:27; Nehemiah 8:16; Zephaniah 1:5....
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...
וְ הָי֞וּ בָּתֵּ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם וּ בָתֵּי֙ מ
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...
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...
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...
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 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,...
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 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...
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...
_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...
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...
THE PARABOLIC ACTION AND ITS EXPLANATION...
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...
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...
Jeremiah 19:13 houses H1004 Jerusalem H3389 houses H1004 kings H4428 Judah H3063 defiled H2931 place H4725 Tophet H
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 Kings 23:10; 2 Kings 23:12; 2 Kings 23:14; Ezekiel 7:21; Ezekiel