Jeremiah 19

Jeremiah 19:1

GO and get a potters earthen bottle] Heb. a bottle of the earthen vessels.

Jeremiah 19:2

go forth unto the valley of the sonne of Hinnom] Of this place see Isai 30. 33. & Chap. 7. 31.

the cast-gate] Heb. the Sunne-gate. Job 9:7. Or Pt-sherdgate. Job 2:8. Or, earthen-vessell-gate. Vers. 1. See Isaiah 16:7. And it seemeth rather to have been the South-gate; called the Sunnegate, because the Sunne lay most upon it: or, in another sense, the gate of Pot-sherds, or earthen ware, from the store of either thereabout, by the neighbourhood of the Potter: Ch. 18. 1. for Tophet lay to the South of Jerusalem. Joshua 15:8.

Jeremiah 19:3

O kings of Judah] Princes and rulers: the King and his Councell. Deuteronomy 33:5. Chap. 17. 20.

which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle] 1 Samuel 3:11. 2 Kings 21:12.

Jeremiah 19:4

they have forsaken me] Chap. 16. 11.

and have estranged this place] Or, strangely abused. Deuteronomy 32:27. So abused it contrary to what should have beene practised in it, and so polluted and prophaned it, that I can no longer own it: as Isai. 1. 11, 12. Psalms 58:3. I phes. 4. 18. Colossians 1:21.

whom neither they nor their fathers have known] Deuteronomy 32:17. Chap. 44. 3.

nor the kings of Judah] Or, even the Kings. See vers. 3. Heb. and; Chap. 35. 15.

and have filled this place with the blood of innocents] Either the Citie of Jerusalem, 2 Kings 21:16. Chap. 7. 6. & 22. 3. or the valley of Tophet, where they slew and sacrificed their poor infants to their idols. Psal. 106. 37, 38. See vers. 3, & 7.

Jeremiah 19:5

They have built also the high places of Baal] Chap. 7. 31. & 32. 35.

to burn their sons with fire for burnt-offerings] Psalms 106:38. 2 Kings 23:10.

which I commanded not, &c.] But expressely forbad, Deutr. 18. 10. and is no such service therefore, as I can approveor accept of Deut. 52. 30-32. Col. 2 22. See Chap. 7. 31, 32.

this place shall no more be called Tophet] Of the Timbrels and Drums, that they used to beat while they sacrificed their children. Isai. 30. 32, 33.

nor the valley of the son of Hinnom] From the ancient Lord, or owner of it. Joshua 15:8.

but the valley of slaughter] In regard of the multitude that shall there lie slain Vers. 7. 11.

Jeremiah 19:7

I will make void the counsell of Judah and Jerusalem] Either their counsell in generall; as pointing to the Kings Palace situate to the South of the Citie, where they used to sit in counsell; or, their projects, whereby they expect succour and aid from Egypt against the Chaldeans, Isai. 30. 1-3. & 31. 1-3. Chap. 37. 7, 8. I will make void, or vain and empty; as emptie, as the bottle before spoken of, vers. 1. 10. the term whereof is here alluded to.

in this place] In this citie, and the places adjacent. Vers. 3.

of them that seek their lives] Heb. soul. Chap. 4. 30. and 18. 20.

their carcasses will I give to be meat for the fowls, &c.] Chap. 7. 33. & 16. 4.

Jeremiah 19:8

I will make this Citie desolate, &c.] Chap. 18. 16. & 49. 13. & 50. 13.

Jeremiah 19:9

I will cause them to cate the flesh of their sons, &c.] Leviticus 26:29. Deuteronomy 28:53. Chap. 21. 7. Lamentations 4:10.

they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend] Or, one anothers flesh; as Chap. 46. 16. See Isaiah 9:20.

Jeremiah 19:10

Then shalt thou break the bottle] This visible signe is used, to shew the certainty of the judgement threatned: and to work the deeper impression in the mindes of those that beheld it. Vers. 1.

Jeremiah 19:11

so will I break this people and this citie, as one breaketh a potters vessell] Isaiah 30:14. Chap. 48. 12.

hat cannot be made whole again] Heb. be healed.

they shall bury them in Tophet] Chap. 7. 32.

till there be no place to bury] Or, left to bury in.

Jeremiah 19:12

make this Citie as Tophet] Where ye had wont to kill and burn your Children, vers. 5. I will fill the whole Citie with the bodies of slain men; as ye filled it formerly with innocent blood, 2 Kings 21:16. that it shall be all over like an other Tophet. Vers. 13.

Jeremiah 19:13

the houses of the Kings of Judah shall be defiled as the place of Tophet] Or, which are defiled, shall e as the place of Tophet.

because of all the houses] Or, with all the houses.

upon whose roofs they have burnt incense] Their houses being flat roofed, Deuteronomy 22:8. they used to serve and sacrifice to their idols on the tops of them. 2 Kings 23:12. Chap. 32. 29. Zephaniah 1:5. See Isaiah 65:3.

Jeremiah 19:15

upon all her Towns] Heb. Cities. The lesser Cities or Towns belonging to Jerusalem the Mother-Citie. Chap. 15. 8. & 34. 1.

because they have hardened their necks] Chap. 7. 26. & 17. 23.

that they might not hear my words] Yeeld obedience thereunto. Deuteronomy 6:3. & Deuteronomy 28:1. Psalms 81:11.