1 Under the type of breaking a potter's vessel, is foreshewn the desolation of the Jews for their sins.

A.M. 3397. B.C. 607. Go. 10,11 18:2-4 32:14 Isa 30:14 La 4:2 2Co 4:7

the ancients of the people. 26:17 Nu 11:16 1Ch 24:4-6 Eze 8:11,12 9:6 Mt 26:3 Mt 27:1,41,42 Ac 4:5,6

2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

the valley. 7:31,32 32:35 Jos 15:8 2Ki 23:10 2Ch 28:3 33:6

east gate. Heb. sun gate. Ne 3:29

and proclaim. 1:7 3:12 7:2 11:6 26:2 Pr 1:20-22 Eze 3:10,11 Jon 3:2 Mt 10:27 Ac 5:20 20:27

3 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

Hear. 13:18 17:20 Ps 2:10 102:15 110:5 Mt 10:18 Re 2:29

his ears. 1Sa 3:11 4:16-18 2Ki 21:12,13 Isa 28:19

4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

they have. 2:13,17,19,34 5:6 15:6 16:11 17:13 De 28:20 31:16-18 De 32:15-23 2Ki 22:16,17 Isa 65:11 Da 9:5-15

estranged. 2Ki 21:4,5,7 23:11,12 2Ch 33:4-7

burned. 7:9 11:13 18:15 32:29-35 De 13:6,13 28:36,64 32:17

filled. 2:30,34 7:31,32 22:17 26:15,23 2Ki 21:6,16 24:4 Isa 59:7 La 4:13 Mt 23:34,35 Lu 11:50 Re 16:6

5 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:

the high. Nu 22:41

to burn. 7:31 De 12:31 2Ki 17:17 2Ch 28:3 Ps 106:37,38 Eze 16:20,21 Eze 20:26

which. 7:31,32 32:35 Le 18:21

neither. Eze 38:10 Da 2:29

6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

this. See on ver. 2,11 7:32,33 Jos 15:8 Isa 30:33

7 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 carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

I will make. Job 5:12,13 Ps 33:10,11 Pr 21:30 Isa 8:10 28:17,18 30:1-3 La 3:37 Ro 3:31 4:14

I will cause. 9:21 15:2,9 18:21 22:25 46:26 Le 26:17 De 28:25

and their. 7:33 8:2 9:22 16:4 22:19 34:20 De 28:26 Ps 79:2,3 Re 19:18-21

8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

See on ch. 9:9-11 18:16 25:18 49:13 50:13 Le 26:32 1Ki 9:8 2Ch 7:20,21 La 2:15,16 Zep 2:15

9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

eat the. Le 26:29 De 28:53-57 2Ki 6:26-29 Isa 9:20 La 2:20 4:10 Eze 5:10

10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

48:12 51:63,64

11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.

Even. 13:14 Ps 2:9 Isa 30:14 La 4:2 Re 2:27

made whole. Heb. healed. bury. 6 7:31,32

12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:

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13 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 heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

defiled. 2Ki 23:10,12,14 Ps 74:7 79:1 Eze 7:21,22

upon. 32:29 2Ki 23:12 Zep 1:5

have poured. 7:18

14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to all the people,

from. 2,3

he stood. 17:19 26:2 2Ch 20:5 24:20,21 Lu 21:37,38 Ac 5:20

15 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

because. 7:26 17:23 35:15-17 2Ch 36:16,17 Ne 9:17,29 Zec 7:11-14 Ac 7:51,52

hardened. This is a metaphor taken from unruly and unbroken oxen, who resist the yoke, and break and run away with their gears.

that they. Ps 58:2-5