Thematic Bible
Jeremiah 19:1 (show verse)
This is what the Lord says: “Go, buy a potter’s clay jar. Take some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests
Jeremiah 19:2 (show verse)
and go out to the Valley of Hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you.
Jeremiah 19:3 (show verse)
Say: Hear the word of the Lord, 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 everyone who hears about it will shudder
Jeremiah 19:4 (show verse)
because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
Jeremiah 19:5 (show verse)
They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, something I have never commanded or mentioned; I never entertained the thought.
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, take note! The days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of 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 spoil the plans of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hand of those who want to take their life. I will provide their corpses as food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.
Jeremiah 19:8 (show verse)
I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and scoff because of all its wounds.
Jeremiah 19:9 (show verse)
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the siege and distress that their enemies, those who want to take their life, inflict on them.
Jeremiah 19:10 (show verse)
“Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the people traveling 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 you are to proclaim to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I will shatter these people and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials.
Jeremiah 19:12 (show verse)
I will do so to this place”—this is the declaration of the Lord—“and to its residents, making this city like Topheth.
Jeremiah 19:13 (show verse)
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to the whole heavenly host and poured out drink 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)
Jeremiah came back from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy, stood in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple, and proclaimed to all the people,
Jeremiah 19:15 (show verse)
“This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to bring on this city—and on all its dependent villages—all the disaster that I spoke against it, for they have become obstinate, not obeying My words.’”