Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 19:1 (show verse)
This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a potter's clay jug. Take along some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.
Jeremiah 19:2 (show verse)
Go out to the Valley of Hinnom at the entrance to the Potsherd Gate, and there proclaim the words that I'm telling you.
Jeremiah 19:3 (show verse)
"You are to say, "Hear this message from the LORD, you kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem!
Jeremiah 19:4 (show verse)
""This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "I'm about to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of all who hear about it tingle. For they have forsaken me and have treated this place as foreign. In it they have burned incense to other gods that neither they, their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah knew. They have also filled this place with the blood of innocent people.
Jeremiah 19:5 (show verse)
They built the high places for Baal to burn their children in the fire as a burnt offering to Baal something I didn't command, didn't say, nor did it ever enter my mind!
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, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when this place will no longer be called Topheth, or the Valley of Hinnom, but rather 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'll shatter the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I'll make them fall by the sword before their enemies and at the hands of those seeking their lives. I'll give their dead bodies as food to the birds of the sky and to the animals of the land.
Jeremiah 19:8 (show verse)
I'll make this city into a desolate place and an object of scorn. All who pass by it will be astonished and will scoff because of all its wounds.
Jeremiah 19:9 (show verse)
I'll cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and people will eat the flesh of their neighbors in the siege and in the distress to which their enemies and those seeking their lives will subject them."'"
Jeremiah 19:10 (show verse)
"Then you are to break the jug in front of the men who have come with 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, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In this same way I'll break this people and this city, just as someone breaks a potter's vessel which he then cannot put back together again. They'll bury corpses in Topheth until there is no more room to bury anyone.
Jeremiah 19:12 (show verse)
This is what I'll do to this place and its residents," declares the LORD, "making this city like Topheth.
Jeremiah 19:13 (show verse)
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be polluted like Topheth, as will be all the houses on whose roofs people burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out liquid offerings 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 went from Topheth where the LORD had sent him to prophesy. He stood in the courtyard of the LORD's Temple, saying to all the people,
Jeremiah 19:15 (show verse)
"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "I'm about to bring on this city and all its towns all the disaster that I declared against it because they were determined not to obey my message.'"