Westminster Annotations, Jeremiah · Chapter 19
CHAP. XIX.
Vers. 1. GO and get a potters earthen bottle] Heb. a bottle of the earthen vessels.
V. 2. go forth unto the valley of the sonne of Hinnom] Of this place see Isai 30. 33. & Chap. 7. 31.
the cast-gate] Heb. the Sunne-gate. Job 9. 7. Or▪ P…t-sherdgate. Job 2. 8. Or, earthen-vessell-gate. Vers. 1. See Isai. 16. 7. And it seemeth rather to have been the South-gate; called the Sunnegate, because the Sunne lay most upon it: or, in another sense, the gate of Pot-sherds, or earthen ware, from the store of either thereabout, by the neighbourhood of the Potter: Ch. 18. 1. for Tophet lay to the South of Jerusalem. Josh. 15. 8.
V. 3. O kings of Judah] Princes and rulers: the King and his Councell. Deut. 33. 5. Chap. 17. 20.
which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle] 1 Sam. 3. 11. 2 King. 21. 12.
V 4. they have forsaken me] Chap. 16. 11.
and have estranged this place] Or, strangely abused. Deut. 32. 27. So abused it contrary to what should have beene practised in it, and so polluted and prophaned it, that I can no longer own it: as Isai. 1. 11, 12. Psal. 58. 3. I phes. 4. 18. Col. 1. 21.
whom neither they nor their fathers have known] Deut. 32. 17. Chap. 44. 3.
nor the kings of Judah] Or, even the Kings. See vers. 3. Heb. and; Chap. 35. 15.
and have filled this place with the blood of innocents] Either the Citie of Jerusalem, 2 King. 21. 16. Chap. 7. 6. & 22. 3. or the valley of Tophet, where they slew and sacrificed their poor infants to their idols. Psal. 106. 37, 38. See vers. 3, & 7.
V. 5. They have built also the high places of Baal] Chap. 7. 31. & 32. 35.
to burn their sons with fire for burnt-offerings] Psal. 106. 38. 2 King. 23. 10.
which I commanded not, &c.] But expressely forbad, Deut…r. 18. 10. and is no such service therefore, as I can approveor accept of Deut. 52. 30-32. Col. 2 22. See Chap. 7. 31, 32.
this place shall no more be called Tophet] Of the Timbrels and Drums, that they used to beat while they sacrificed their children. Isai. 30. 32, 33.
nor the valley of the son of Hinnom] From the ancient Lord, or owner of it. Josh. 15. 8.
but the valley of slaughter] In regard of the multitude that shall there lie slain Vers. 7. 11.
V. 7. I will make void the counsell of Judah and Jerusalem] Either their counsell in generall; as pointing to the Kings Palace situate to the South of the Citie, where they used to sit in counsell; or, their projects, whereby they expect succour and aid from Egypt against the Chaldeans, Isai. 30. 1-3. & 31. 1-3. Chap. 37. 7, 8. I will make void, or vain and empty; as emptie, as the bottle before spoken of, vers. 1. 10. the term whereof is here alluded to.
in this place] In this citie, and the places adjacent. Vers. 3.
of them that seek their lives] Heb. soul. Chap. 4. 30. and 18. 20.
their carcasses will I give to be meat for the fowls, &c.] Chap. 7. 33. & 16. 4.
V. 8. I will make this Citie desolate, &c.] Chap. 18. 16. & 49. 13. & 50. 13.
V. 9. I will cause them to cate the flesh of their sons, &c.] Levit. 26. 29. Deut. 28. 53. Chap. 21. 7. Lam. 4. 10.
they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend] Or, one anothers flesh; as Chap. 46. 16. See Isa. 9. 20.
V. 10. Then shalt thou break the bottle] This visible signe is used, to shew the certainty of the judgement threatned: and to work the deeper impression in the mindes of those that beheld it. Vers. 1.
V. 11. so will I break this people and this citie, as one breaketh a potters vessell] Isa. 30. 14. Chap. 48. 12.
…hat cannot be made whole again] Heb. be healed.
they shall bury them in Tophet] Chap. 7. 32.
till there be no place to bury] Or, left to bury in.
V. 12. make this Citie as Tophet] Where ye had wont to kill and burn your Children, vers. 5. I will fill the whole Citie with the bodies of slain men; as ye filled it formerly with innocent blood, 2 King. 21. 16. that it shall be all over like an other Tophet. Vers. 13.
V. 13. the houses of the Kings of Judah shall be defiled as the place of Tophet] Or, which are defiled, shall …e as the place of Tophet.
because of all the houses] Or, with all the houses.
upon whose roofs they have burnt incense] Their houses being flat roofed, Deut. 22. 8. they used to serve and sacrifice to their idols on the tops of them. 2 King. 23. 12. Chap. 32. 29. Zeph. 1. 5. See Isai. 65. 3.
V. 15. upon all her Towns] Heb. Cities. The lesser Cities or Towns belonging to Jerusalem the Mother-Citie. Chap. 15. 8. & 34. 1.
because they have hardened their necks] Chap. 7. 26. & 17. 23.
that they might not hear my words] Yeeld obedience thereunto. Deut. 6. 3. & 28. 1. Psal. 81. 11.