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    Jeremiah 19

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    A nation is made to stand beside a clay jar, and the jar is then broken because it cannot be repaired. The potter’s little object has been given a most alarming promotion.

    The jar and the valleyvv. 1–9

    The LORD sends Jeremiah to buy a clay jar and take elders of the people and leaders of the priests to the Valley of Ben-hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There Jeremiah is to speak to the kings of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem about abandoned worship, innocent blood, and children burned as offerings to Baal—an act dismissed with a remarkably emphatic absence: not commanded, not mentioned, and not even entering the divine mind. The place is to lose the name Topheth and become the Valley of Slaughter, while Judah and Jerusalem are promised ruin, siege, and the most terrible consequences of siege.

    The unrepairable thingvv. 10–15

    The message acquires a prop. Jeremiah shatters the jar before the men who accompany him and declares that the nation and the city will be shattered in the same fashion: like a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. Topheth, newly displaced by the Valley of Slaughter, promptly returns as the measure of the city’s fate, with burials filling it and Jerusalem’s rooftops defiled. Jeremiah then comes back from Topheth, stands in the courtyard of the house of the LORD, and proclaims that disaster is coming upon the city and its surrounding villages because the people have stiffened their necks against the words spoken to them.

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    1. Jer 19:1This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,

    2. Jer 19:2and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,

    3. Jer 19:3saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,

    4. Jer 19:4because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

    5. Jer 19:5They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.

    6. Jer 19:6So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

    7. Jer 19:7And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

    8. Jer 19:8I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

    9. Jer 19:9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

    10. Jer 19:10Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,

    11. Jer 19:11and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.

    12. Jer 19:12This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.

    13. Jer 19:13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”

    14. Jer 19:14Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,

    15. Jer 19:15“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”

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    • 5Jeremiah 32:35They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.
    • 5Deuteronomy 12:31You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
    • 5Psalms 106:37–38They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
    • 5Leviticus 18:21You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
    • 4Jeremiah 2:34Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
    • 9Isaiah 9:20They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.
    • 2Joshua 15:8From there the border went up the Valley of Ben-hinnom along the southern slope of the Jebusites (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.
    • 31 Samuel 3:11Then the LORD said to Samuel, “I am about to do something in Israel at which the ears of all who hear it will tingle.
    • 5Ezekiel 16:20–21You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?
    • 5Jeremiah 7:31–32They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
    • 7Leviticus 26:17And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
    • 8Jeremiah 18:16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
    • 9Leviticus 26:29You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
    • 9Lamentations 4:10The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
    • 11Psalms 2:9You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
    • 132 Kings 23:12He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

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