“ Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, ”
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 origin...
Jeremiah summoned witnesses, that the confirmation of the prophecy might be more fully attested to the people. With regard to the history of this transaction we may add, that he was first sent...
Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, Then shalt thou break the bottle - a symbolical action, explained in Jeremiah 19:11 . In the sight of the men...
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 t...
Then shalt thou break the bottle... — Those who heard the prophet and saw his act were not unfamiliar with the imagery. The words of Psalms 2:9 had portrayed the Messianic king as ruling over the...
CHAPTER XII THE BROKEN VESSEL - A SYMBOL OF JUDGMENT Jeremiah 19:1-15 THE result of his former address, founded upon the procedure of the potter, had only been to bring out into clearer distin...
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 26:1-2...
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...
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:...
Then shall thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee. The earthen bottle he was bid to get of the potter, Jeremiah 19:1 ; this he is ordered to break in pieces before the ey...
Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, Ver. 10. Then shalt thou break the bottle. ] That the eyes of the bystanders and beholders may affect their hearts. Non...
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 wo...
The Desolation of Jerusalem. B. C. 600. 10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sig...
The earthen bottle, which, Jeremiah 19:1 , he was commanded to carry with him into the valley of the son of Hinnom, (where he now was,) in the sight of the ancients of the priests, and of the peop...
The Lesson Of The Potter's Vessel ( Jeremiah 19:1-15 ). Jeremiah was now called on to perform a prophetic ritual through which he would vividly depict what was to happen to Judah and Jerusalem. Th...
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 o...
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 val...
EXPOSITION With this chapter, Jeremiah 19:1-24 of the next ought undoubtedly to be connected to complete the narrative. Jeremiah here comes before us performing another symbolical action. By b...
The Parabolic Action and its Explanation
Jeremiah 48:12 ; Jeremiah 51:63 ; Jeremiah 51:64