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
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