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)
Then go out to the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is by 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 I am about to bring a calamity upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.
Jeremiah 19:4 (show verse)
Because they have forsaken Me and have made this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, 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, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, 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, behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-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 will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah 19:8 (show verse)
I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.
Jeremiah 19:9 (show verse)
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them.”’
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, “Just so will I break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place for burial.
Jeremiah 19:12 (show verse)
This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants,” declares the Lord, “so as to 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 the place Topheth, because of all the houses on whose rooftops they burned sacrifices to all the 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)
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 about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”