Jeremiah 19:5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 19:3-5

Jeremiah 19:3-5. Say, Hear, &c., O kings of Judah See note on Jeremiah 17:20. Behold, I will bring evil upon this place That is, upon Judah and Jerusalem, so surprising and so dreadful that whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle The very report of it shall astonish the hearers. Because they have estranged this place From me, should be supplied to make the sense clearer; the meaning, it seems, being that, by their worshipping other gods, and committing all sorts of crimes, they... read more

Donald C. Fleming

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 19:5

to burn = consume. Hebrew. saraph. App-43 . burn their sons, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 18:21 ). burnt offerings. Compare Jeremiah 7:31 . My mind. Hebrew My heart. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. "Mind" put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for the thoughts. saith the LORD = [is] Jehovah's oracle. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 19:5

5. commanded not—nay, more, I commanded the opposite (Leviticus 18:21; see Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 7:32). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 19:1-6

The broken jar object lesson 19:1-20:6This message to the people involved another symbolic act (cf. Jeremiah 13:1-11). This incident may have occurred between 609 and 605 B.C."In ch. 18 God explains to Jeremiah that sovereign grace is able to take the marred vessel (Israel) and remake it a vessel of usefulness (Jeremiah 19:4). But to the elders, in ch. 19, the prophet declares that their generation will be irreparably destroyed like a smashed fragile vessel, and the fragments taken to Babylon.... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 19:4-5

The calamity would strike because the people had forsaken Yahweh and had turned the valley of Hinnom, and all Jerusalem (cf. 2 Kings 21:12), into a place of heathen worship-including child sacrifice (cf. Jeremiah 7:31). Their forefathers did not do this, and Yahweh had never commanded these atrocities. 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 19:5

(5) The high places of Baal.—Baal, as in Jeremiah 2:23, is identified with Molech, and the terms in which the guilt of the people and its punishment are described are all but identical with those of Jeremiah 7:31-32. The fact that such sacrifices were offered is indicated in Psalms 106:37-38. 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

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