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<p id="Chapter19" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 19
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<p id="Jer19_1"><a onclick="return mV('Jer',19,'1-15');">Jer 19:1-15</a>. THE DESOLATION OF THE JEWS FOR THEIR SINS FORETOLD IN THE VALLEY OF HINNOM; THE SYMBOL OF BREAKING A BOTTLE.</P>
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<p>Referred by MAURER, etc., to the beginning of Zedekiah's reign.
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<p><b>1. bottle</b>—<i>Hebrew, bakuk,</i> so called from the gurgling sound which it makes when being emptied.
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<br><br><b>ancients</b>—elders. As witnesses of the symbolic action (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',19,10);">Jer 19:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',8,1,2);">Isa 8:1-2</a>), that the Jews might not afterwards plead ignorance of the prophecy. The seventy-two elders, composing the Sanhedrim, or Great Council, were taken partly from "the priests," partly from the other tribes, that is, "the people," the former presiding over spiritual matters, the latter over civil; the seventy-two represented the whole people.
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<p id="Jer19_2"><b>2. valley of the son of Hinnom</b>—or Tophet, south of Jerusalem, where human victims were offered, and children made to pass through the fire, in honor of Molech.
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<br><br><b>east gate</b>—<i>Margin</i>, "sun gate," sunrise being in the <i>east.</i> MAURER translates, the "potter's gate." Through it lay the road to the valley of Hinnom (<a onclick="return mV('Jos',15,8);">Jos 15:8</a>). The potters there formed vessels for the use of the temple, which was close by (compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',19,10,14);">Jer 19:10,14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',18,2);">Jer 18:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',11,13);">Zec 11:13</a>). The same as "<i>the water gate</i> toward the east" (<a onclick="return mV('Neh',3,26);">Neh 3:26</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Neh',12,37);">12:37</a>); so called from the brook Kedron. CALVIN translates, as <i>English Version</i> and <i>Margin.</i> "It was monstrous perversity to tread the law under foot in so conspicuous a place, over which the sun daily rising reminded them of the light of God's law."
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<p id="Jer19_3"><b>3.</b> The scene of their guilt is chosen as the scene of the denunciation against them.
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<br><br><b>kings</b>—the king and queen (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',13,18);">Jer 13:18</a>); or including the king's counsellors and governors under him.
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<br><br><b>tingle</b>—as if struck by a thunder peal (<a onclick="return mV('1Sa',3,11);">1Sa 3:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',21,12);">2Ki 21:12</a>).
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<p id="Jer19_4"><b>4.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',65,11);">Isa 65:11</a>).
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<br><br><b>estranged this place</b>—devoted it to the worship of strange gods: alienating a portion of the sacred city from God, the rightful Lord of the temple, city, and whole land.
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<br><br><b>nor their fathers</b>—namely, the <i>godly</i> among them; their <i>ungodly</i> fathers God makes no account of.
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<br><br><b>blood of innocents</b>—slain in honor of Molech (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,31);">Jer 7:31</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',106,37);">Psa 106:37</a>).
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<p id="Jer19_5"><b>5. commanded not</b>—nay, more, I commanded the opposite (<a onclick="return mV('Lev',18,21);">Lev 18:21</a>; see <a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,31,32);">Jer 7:31-32</a>).
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<p id="Jer19_6"><b>6. no more...Tophet</b>—from <i>Hebrew, toph,</i> "drum"; for in sacrificing children to Molech drums were beaten to drown their cries. Thus the name indicated the joy of the people at the fancied propitiation of the god by this sacrifice; in antithesis to its joyless name subsequently.
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<br><br><b>valley of slaughter</b>—It should be the scene of slaughter, no longer of children, but of men; not of "innocents" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',19,4);">Jer 19:4</a>), but of those who richly deserved their fate. The city could not be assailed without first occupying the valley of Hinnom, in which was the only fountain: hence arose the violent battle there.
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<p id="Jer19_7"><b>7. make void the counsel</b>—defeat their plans for repelling the enemy (<a onclick="return mV('2Ch',32,'1-4');">2Ch 32:1-4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',19,3);">Isa 19:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',22,9,11);">22:9, 11</a>). Or their schemes of getting help by having recourse to idols [CALVIN].
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<br><br><b>in this place</b>—The valley of Hinnom was to be the place of the Chaldean encampment; the very place where they looked for help from idols was to be the scene of their own slaughter.
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<p id="Jer19_8"><b>8.</b> (See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer018.html#Jer18_16">Jer 18:16</a>).
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<p id="Jer19_9"><b>9.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',28,53);">Deu 28:53</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Lam',4,10);">Lam 4:10</a>).
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<p id="Jer19_10"><b>10. break...bottle</b>—a symbolical action, explained in <a onclick="return mV('Jer',19,11);">Jer 19:11</a> .
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<br><br><b>the men</b>—the elders of the people and of the priests (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',19,1);">Jer 19:1</a>; compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',51,63,64);">Jer 51:63-64</a>).
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<p id="Jer19_11"><b>11. as one breaketh a potters vessel</b>—expressing God's absolute sovereignty (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',18,6);">Jer 18:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',2,9);">Psa 2:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,14);">Isa 30:14</a>, <i>Margin;</i> <a onclick="return mV('Lam',4,2);">Lam 4:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',9,20,21);">Rom 9:20-21</a>).
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<br><br><b>cannot be made whole again</b>—A broken potter's vessel cannot be restored, but a new one may be made of the same material. So God raised a new Jewish seed, not identical with the destroyed rebels, but by substituting another generation in their stead [GROTIUS].
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<br><br><b>no place to bury</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,32);">Jer 7:32</a>).
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<p id="Jer19_12"><b>12. make this city as Tophet</b>—that is, as defiled with dead bodies as Tophet.
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<p id="Jer19_13"><b>13. shall be defiled</b>—with dead bodies (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',19,12);">Jer 19:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',23,10);">2Ki 23:10</a>).
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<br><br><b>because of all the houses</b>—Rather, (explanatory of the previous "the houses...and...houses"), "<i>even</i> all the houses," etc. [CALVIN].
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<br><br><b>roofs</b>—being flat, they were used as high places for sacrifices to the sun and planets (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',32,29);">Jer 32:29</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',23,11,12);">2Ki 23:11-12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zep',1,5);">Zep 1:5</a>). The Nabateans, south and east of the Dead Sea, a nation most friendly to the Jews, according to STRABO, had the same usage.
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<p id="Jer19_14"><b>14. court of the Lord's house</b>—near Tophet; the largest court, under the open air, where was the greatest crowd (<a onclick="return mV('2Ch',20,5);">2Ch 20:5</a>).
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<p id="Jer19_15"><b>15. her towns</b>—the suburban villages and towns near Jerusalem, such as Bethany.
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