Jeremiah 19:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Jeremiah 19:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  As he had said before that the valley would be the place of slaughter, that thence it might take its name, so now he declares the same as to the city; “As then Tophet shall be the valley of sla...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet: And even make this city as Tophet - A place of slaughter and destruction.

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet: And even make this city as Tophet - i:e., as defiled with dead bodies as Top...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And even make this city as Tophet. — This is an allusive reference partly to the state of the valley of Hinnom as a heap of ruins and rubbish, partly to the meaning of the name Tophet, as a place s...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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:...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof ,.... To the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants, as was done to the earthen bottle, and as before threatened: and...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and [even] make this city as Tophet: Ver. 12. And even make their city as Tophet. ] Every whit as abominable and hor...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Desolation of Jerusalem. B. C. 600.       10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sig...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  That is, a place of slaughter and burials, or a base, ignominious place, or where the noise of drums, and trumpets, and cryings, and yellings shall be heard, as used to be in Tophet

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Parabolic Action and its Explanation

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jeremiah 10:13 ; Jeremiah 11:5

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• Jeremiah 19:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  As Tophet — That is, a place of slaughter and burials.

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