_Go and get a potter's earthen bottle_ The meaning of this emblem is fully explained in the subsequent verses; and indeed the whole chapter requires little more comment than a reference to the passages in the margin. _And take of the ancients of the people_ Or, _take with thee some of the ancients_,... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 ears shall tingle_ The very report of it shall astonish the hearers. _Because they have estranged t... [ Continue Reading ]
_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, it had the name of _Tophet_, from the noise of drums and tabrets sounding there while children were... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 could do. Of such symbolical actions as these there are several instances in the Scriptures. _Thus sa... [ Continue Reading ]
_He stood in the court of the Lord's house_ The great court, called the _outer court, Ezekiel 46:21_, supposed to be the same with the _new court_, mentioned 2 Chronicles 20:5, as having been built since Solomon's time. _And said to all the people_ Confirming, and probably repeating to them, who had... [ Continue Reading ]