Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 19:1 (show verse)
Thus says the Lord, “Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests
Jeremiah 19:2 (show verse)
and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom (son of Hinnom), which is near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there the words that I tell you,
Jeremiah 19:3 (show verse)
and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold (listen carefully), I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of everyone who hears about it will tingle [in shock].
Jeremiah 19:4 (show verse)
Because the people [of Jerusalem] have abandoned (rejected) Me and have made this an alien and profaned place by burning sacrifices and incense in it to other gods, that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent
Jeremiah 19:5 (show verse)
and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind (heart);
the Burnt offering » Of human victims execrated
Idolatry » Objects of, worshipped » By burning children
Instruction » Potter's vessel
Offerings » Human sacrifices » israelites
Offerings » Human sacrifices » Offered to baal
Paganism » Results
Sacrifice » The reward for sacrificing your children
Sacrifices » Human beings offered as
Violence » The reward for violence
Idolatry » Objects of, worshipped » By burning children
Instruction » Potter's vessel
Offerings » Human sacrifices » israelites
Offerings » Human sacrifices » Offered to baal
Paganism » Results
Sacrifice » The reward for sacrificing your children
Sacrifices » Human beings offered as
Violence » The reward for violence
Jeremiah 19:6 (show verse)
therefore, listen very closely, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “when this place shall no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
Hinnom » Children offered in sacrifice in
Instruction » Potter's vessel
Jerusalem » Prophecies against
Offerings » Human sacrifices » Offered to baal
Paganism » Results
Sacrifice » The reward for sacrificing your children
Tophet » Jewish children passed through the fire to the God molech in
Violence » The reward for violence
Instruction » Potter's vessel
Jerusalem » Prophecies against
Offerings » Human sacrifices » Offered to baal
Paganism » Results
Sacrifice » The reward for sacrificing your children
Tophet » Jewish children passed through the fire to the God molech in
Violence » The reward for violence
Jeremiah 19:7 (show verse)
I will pour out and nullify the counsel (plans) of [the men of] Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will make their people fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their lives; and I will give their dead bodies as food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah 19:8 (show verse)
I will make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be amazed and will hiss [in scorn] because of all its plagues and disasters.
Jeremiah 19:9 (show verse)
And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and each one will eat one another’s flesh during the siege and distress brought by their enemies and those who seek their lives.”’
Jeremiah 19:10 (show verse)
“Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who accompany you,
Bottle » Made of clay
Bottles » Illustrative » (broken,) of severe judgments
Instruction » Potter's vessel
Paganism » Results
Prophets » Frequently in their actions, &c were made signs to the people
Sacrifice » The reward for sacrificing your children
Symbols and similitudes » Bottles
Violence » The reward for violence
Bottles » Illustrative » (broken,) of severe judgments
Instruction » Potter's vessel
Paganism » Results
Prophets » Frequently in their actions, &c were made signs to the people
Sacrifice » The reward for sacrificing your children
Symbols and similitudes » Bottles
Violence » The reward for violence
Jeremiah 19:11 (show verse)
and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “This is the way I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, so that it cannot be mended. They will bury [corpses] in Topheth until there is no more room left [in that place] to bury [the dead].
Jeremiah 19:12 (show verse)
This I will do to this place,” says the Lord, “and to its inhabitants; and I will even make this city like Topheth.
Jeremiah 19:13 (show verse)
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth, all the houses on whose rooftops incense has been burned to all the host of heaven (sun, moon, stars), and where drink offerings have been poured out to other gods.”’”
Altars » For idolatrous worship, often erected on roofs of houses
Defilement » What defiles the house of God
Drink offering » Idolatrous jews » Reproved for offering, to idols
Idolatry » Other customs of » Libations
Idolatry » Objects of, worshipped » With libations
Paganism » Results
Sacrifice » The reward for sacrificing your children
Stars » Worshiped
Stars » Idolaters worshipped
Tophet » Jewish children passed through the fire to the God molech in
Violence » The reward for violence
Worship » Divinity of Christ » Of heavenly bodies
false Worship » Other objects of worship » Heavenly bodies
FALSE » Other objects of worship » Heavenly bodies
Defilement » What defiles the house of God
Drink offering » Idolatrous jews » Reproved for offering, to idols
Idolatry » Other customs of » Libations
Idolatry » Objects of, worshipped » With libations
Paganism » Results
Sacrifice » The reward for sacrificing your children
Stars » Worshiped
Stars » Idolaters worshipped
Tophet » Jewish children passed through the fire to the God molech in
Violence » The reward for violence
Worship » Divinity of Christ » Of heavenly bodies
false Worship » Other objects of worship » Heavenly bodies
FALSE » Other objects of worship » Heavenly bodies
Jeremiah 19:14 (show verse)
Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord’s house and said to all the people:
Jeremiah 19:15 (show verse)
“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am going to bring on this city and on all its towns, all the devastation that I have declared against it, because they have become stiff-necked and refused to hear and obey My words.’”