JEREMIAH CHAPTER 19 Under the type of breaking a potter's vessel is foreshown the desolation of the Jews for their sins committed in the valley of Hinnom and elsewhere. Critics dispute the figure and fashion of this bottle; (see the English Annotations, and Mr. Pool's Latin Synopsis;) but that is not much material, for God's design was only to show the fragility of this people, how easily he could break them, and how certainly he would break them in pieces. For the more public notice of this typical action, Jeremiah is commanded to take for witnesses some of the gravest of the people and of the priests; whether they were members of the Sanhedrim (which was made up of these two sorts) or not, the Scripture saith not.
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Jeremiah 19:1
1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;