Jeremiah 19:13 NIV

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 19:1-15

The broken pot (19:1-20:6)In another acted parable Jeremiah, carrying an earthenware pot in his hand, took the leaders of Jerusalem to a place outside the city walls where old pottery was dumped. This was in the valley where the Judeans once sacrificed their children to Molech and carried out other pagan rites (19:1-2; see 7:30-34 and section, ‘Tophet and the Valley of Hinnom’).Through their leaders, the people of Judah are told that in this valley, where they have killed their children, they... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 19:13

upon whose roofs. Compare Jeremiah 32:29 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 19:13

13. shall be defiled—with dead bodies (Jeremiah 19:12; 2 Kings 23:10). because of all the houses—Rather, (explanatory of the previous "the houses . . . and . . . houses"), "even all the houses," c. [CALVIN]. roofs—being flat, they were used as high places for sacrifices to the sun and planets (Jeremiah 32:29 2 Kings 23:11; 2 Kings 23:12; Zephaniah 1:5). The Nabateans, south and east of the Dead Sea, a nation most friendly to the Jews, according to STRABO, had the same usage. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 19:12-13

Yahweh would also make Jerusalem a place of fire "like Topheth," and its people a sacrifice, as well, because all the people, from the ordinary citizens to the kings, had turned their houses into altars dedicated to pagan gods. The presence of corpses would make the city unclean. The people had offered burnt offerings and poured out drink offerings on their flat rooftops to astral deities and other idols (cf. Jeremiah 7:16-20; Jeremiah 32:29; Zephaniah 1:5). Archaeologists have discovered... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 19:1-15

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 take the form of a breaking or overthrow.1-13. Figure of the broken vessel.1. Ancients] RV ’elders.’2. Valley of the son of Hinnom] see on Jeremiah 7:31. East gate] Hebrew is obscure. RM ’gate of potsherds,’ perhaps because refuse of this sort was thrown there. 3. Kings] the whole dynasty with their... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 19:13

(13) Defiled as the place of Tophet.—A difficulty affecting the construction, but not the sense, of the passage, makes the rendering as the place of Tophet the defiled preferable.Upon whose roofs they have burned incense.—The flat roofs of Eastern houses were used, as for exercise (2 Samuel 11:2) so also, as in Peter’s vision at Joppa (Acts 10:9), for prayer and meditation, and seem from Zephaniah 1:5 to have been specially chosen, as was natural, for worship addressed to the host of heaven.... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 19:1-15

CHAPTER XIITHE BROKEN VESSEL - A SYMBOL OF JUDGMENTJeremiah 19:1-15THE result of his former address, founded upon the procedure of the potter, had only been to bring out into clearer distinctness the appalling extent of the national corruption. It was evident that Judah was incorrigible, and the Potter’s vessel must be broken in pieces by its Maker."Thus said Iahvah: Go and buy a bottle" (baqbuq, as if "a pour pour"; the meaning is alluded to in the first word of Jeremiah 19:7: ubaqqothi, " and... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Jeremiah 19:1-15

CHAPTER 19 The Broken Bottle 1. The broken bottle and the message (Jeremiah 19:1-13 ) 2. The fate announced in the court of the Lord’s house (Jeremiah 19:14-15 ) Jeremiah 19:1-13 . He was to get a potter’s earthen bottle accompanied by elders and priests, and go to the valley of the son of Hinnom. There he should proclaim the words Jehovah would breathe into him. The message is another judgment message and needs no further comment. In Tophet, the valley of Hinnom, they had worked their... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 19:13

19:13 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 {f} houses upon whose {g} roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.(f) He notes the great rage of the idolaters who left no place free from their abominations, in that they polluted their own houses with it, as we see yet among the papists.(g) Read De 22:8 . read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 19:1-15

“ IN THE SWELLING OF JORDAN ” God told the prophet worse was to come. The Swelling of Jordan would be experienced later, and in the present lesson, especially towards the close, we have an illustration of it. There are things of interest to look at in the meantime, for example, an illustration of that symbolic teaching mentioned earlier. In chapter 13 we have what two symbols? See Jeremiah 13:1-11 for the first and Jeremiah 13:12-14 for the second. The prophet acted these out before the... read more