Jeremiah 19:1-13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 19:1-9

The corruption of man having made it necessary that precept should be upon precept, and line upon line (so unapt are we to receive, and so very apt to let slip, the things of God), the grace of God has provided that there shall be, accordingly, precept upon precept, and line upon line, that those who are irreclaimable may be inexcusable. For this reason the prophet is here sent with a message to the same purport with what he had often delivered, but with some circumstances that might make it... read more

Matthew Henry

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 19:1

Thus saith the Lord, go and get a potter's earthen bottle ,.... From the potter's house, where he had lately been; and where he had been shown, in an emblematic way, what God would do in a short time with the Jews; and which is here further illustrated by this emblem: or, "go and get", or "buy, a bottle of the potter, an earthen one" F11 וקנית בקבק יוצר חרש "emas, vel emito oenophorum a figulo testaceum", Munster, Tigurine version. So Kimchi and Ben Melech. ; so Kimchi;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 19:2

And go forth into the valley of the son of Hinnom ,.... To whom it formerly belonged, and so it was called as early as Joshua's time, Joshua 15:8 ; from the faith and abomination of the place, and the shocking torments here exercised, "hell", from hence, in the New Testament, is called "Gehenna": here the prophet with the elders were to go, for reasons after mentioned; because here their cruel idolatries were committed, and Jerusalem was to be made like unto it for pollution and bloodshed:... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 19:3

And say, hear ye the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah ,.... The king and his queen; or the king and his sons; or the king and his princes, and nobles; for there was but one king reigning at a time in Judah, and the present king was Zedekiah; see Jeremiah 21:1 ; and inhabitants of Jerusalem ; the elders of which, and of the priests, were now before him; to whom he said the following things, that they might tell them to the persons mentioned: thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 19:4

Because they have forsaken me ,.... My worship, as the Targum; they had apostatized from God, relinquished his service, neglected and despised his word and ordinances, and left the religion they had been brought up in, and was agreeable to the will of God. This, with what follows, contain reasons of the Lord's threatening them to bring evil upon them, as before: and have estranged this place ; or made a strange place of it, so that it could scarcely be known to be the same, nor would the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 19:5

They have also built the high places of Baal ,.... Or, they have even built, &c.; and so the words explain what is before suggested of their idolatry; these were the temples in which they placed his image, and the altars on which they sacrificed to him; as follows: to burn their sons with fire, for burnt offerings unto Baal ; the same idol that is sometimes called Moloch, the names being much of the same signification; the one signifying a "lord" or "master"; the other a king; and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 19:6

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord ,.... Or, "are coming" F15 ימים באים "dies (sunt) venientes", Montanus, Schmidt. ; a little while and it will come to pass, what follows; to which a "behold" is prefixed, as calling for attention and admiration, as well as to assure of the certain performance of it: that this place shall no more be called Tophet : as it had been, from the beating of drums in it, that the cries and shrieks of infants burnt in the fire might not be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 19:7

And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place ,.... The counsel which they took in this place and agreed to, in offering their sons and daughters to idols; and which they took with these idols and their priests, from whom they expected assistance and relief; and all their schemes and projects for their deliverance; these were all made to spear to be mere empty things, as empty as the earthen bottle he had in his hand, to which there is an allusion; there being an... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 19:8

And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing ,.... An hissing to its enemies; an hissing because desolate; when its walls should be broken down, its houses burnt with fire, and its inhabitants put to the sword, or carried captive: everyone that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and hiss ; surprised to see the desolations of it; that a city once so famous and flourishing should be reduced to such a miserable condition; and yet hiss by way of detestation and abhorrence of it, and... read more

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