Jeremiah 19:13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 19:10-15

The message of wrath delivered in the Jer. 19:1-9 is here enforced, that it might gain credit, two ways:? I. By a visible sign. The prophet was to take along with him an earthen bottle (Jer. 19:1), and, when he had delivered his message, he was to break the bottle to pieces (Jer. 19:10), and the same that were auditors of the sermon must be spectators of the sign. He had compared this people, in the chapter before, to the potter's clay, which is easily marred in the making. But some might say,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 19:13

And the houses of Jerusalem ,.... Where the common people dwelt: and the houses of the kings of Judah ; the palaces of the king, princes, and nobles of Judah, one as well as another: shall be defiled os Tophet ; as that was defiled with the bodies and bones of the slain, and with the faith of the city brought unto it; so the houses of great and small, high and low, should be defiled with the carcasses of the slain that should lie unburied there; their houses should be their graves,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 19:13

Verse 13 He describes, as I have said, more at large what he had briefly expressed, for he had spoken of the city; but as the belief of that was difficult, he now enumerates particulars, as though he had said, that Jerusalem was a wide city and splendidly built, for there were there many large and elegant houses, and the royal palaces, yet he says, that all these things would not prevent God to demolish the whole city. And this deserves particular notice, for we know that Satan dazzles our eyes... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 19:1-13

The broken bottle. That was a strange scene—the royal family, the nobles, the chief priests, together with the populace of Jerusalem, gathered, at the summons of a prophet whose power could not be ignored though his teaching was opposed, in the valley of Hinnom, now reeking with the odors of foul crime; and the prophet facing them, alone and fearless, with a common potter's vessel in his hand, while he draws a most awful picture of impending calamity, and sternly charges his audience with... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 19:1-13

The breaking of the potter's vessel. I. THE PRELIMINARIES OF THE BREAKING . Spectators of the proper sort needed to be deliberately gathered together in the proper place. We may suppose that the elders of the people and of the priests were peculiarly responsible for all that concerned the safety of the city. This symbolic action was best performed before the select responsible few. As they went forth with the prophet they had time to ask themselves what the meaning of this... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 19:1-15

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 19:1-15

Denunciations of doom. This chapter is filled with these awful warnings of the prophet. And they are made the more awful by the reflection that, fitted as they were to rouse the most careless and hardened, yet they failed with those to whom they were addressed. And so this sad chapter teaches us such lessons as these: 1. The earnest purpose of God to save man from his sin . Hence these warnings. 2. The awfully hardening power of the sin which could despise them . 3. What... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 19:13

The houses of the kings of Judah ; i.e. the palaces and other buildings which together made up the king's house ( Jeremiah 22:6 ). Shall he defiled as the place of Tophet . This is one of the few places in which the Authorized Version has allowed itself to interfere with the received text; for the Hebrew has "which are defiled," etc. The common reading, in fact, seems untranslatable. Because of all the houses ; rather, even all the houses . read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 19:13

Because of all - literally, “with reference to all,” limiting the denunciation to those houses whose roofs had been defiled with altars.Upon whose roofs they have burned incense - See 2 Kings 23:12, note. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 19:10-13

Jeremiah 19:10-13. 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 words could do. Of such symbolical actions as these there are several instances in the Scriptures. Thus saith the Lord, Even so will I break this people That is, as Jeremiah breaketh the bottle: That cannot be made whole again That is, the ruin of Jerusalem shall be an utter... read more

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