Jeremiah 19:13 - Exposition

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 .