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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 19:1-6

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 19:3

The prophet was to call everyone in Jerusalem to hear the Lord’s message, from the kings to the ordinary citizens. Israel’s God-Almighty Yahweh-was about to bring a calamity of unheard of severity on Jerusalem (cf. 1 Samuel 3:11; 2 Kings 21:12). 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

Thomas Constable

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

Because of these sins, the Lord predicted that the place would receive a new name: the Valley of Slaughter. It’s previous names were the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and Topheth (lit. fireplace or hearth; cf. Jeremiah 7:31-32; Isaiah 30:33). A change of name in the Old Testament frequently signified a change of function (cf. Genesis 17:5; Genesis 17:15; et al.). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 19:7

The Lord would also turn the wise advice of the people of Judah and Jerusalem into foolishness. As they had worshipped "nothings" there, so their wisdom would come to nothing. Their enemy would also defeat and slaughter them there, as they had slaughtered their innocent children. No one would bury their dead bodies, but they would become food for carrion birds (vultures) and wild animals, since they had killed similar animals there to worship the idols (cf. Jeremiah 7:33; Jeremiah 16:4;... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 19:8

Yahweh would also destroy Jerusalem so that everyone who passed its ruins would whistle in amazement because of the devastation (cf. Jeremiah 18:16; 1 Kings 9:8; Lamentations 2:15-16; Ezekiel 27:36; Zephaniah 2:15). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 19:9

The siege of Jerusalem would be so bad that the residents would eat their own children, and one another, rather than die of starvation (cf. Jeremiah 11:1-8; Leviticus 26:29; Deuteronomy 28:53-57; 2 Kings 6:26-29; Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 4:10). This was compensation for their having taken human life to worship pagan idols. Being consumed by cannibals was a typical curse for treaty-breakers in the ancient Near East, as was lack of burial (Jeremiah 19:7). [Note: See D. R. Hillers,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 19:10-11

Jeremiah was to break his jar in the sight of his hearers as a symbolic act, and was to announce that in similar fashion, the Lord would destroy the people and the city. They would not be able to recover from this catastrophe any more than one could repair a shattered earthenware jar. The only burial places would be in Topheth. The "fireplace" would become a cemetery.Earlier the Lord implied that He would reshape the nation if the people repented, as a potter reshapes a vessel under... 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

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

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

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 19:3

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

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

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 19:7

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 19:8

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 19:9

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 19:10-11

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

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