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The
Broken Jar |
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| Jeremiah 19:1 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 19:2 |
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"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
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| Jeremiah 19:3 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 19:4 |
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"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 |
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| Jeremiah 19:5 |
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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; |
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| Jeremiah 19:6 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 19:7 |
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"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. |
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| Jeremiah 19:8 |
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"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. |
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| Jeremiah 19:9 |
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"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."' |
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| Jeremiah 19:10 |
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"Then you are to break the jar in the sight
of the men who accompany you |
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| Jeremiah 19:11 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 19:12 |
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"This is how I will treat this place and its
inhabitants," declares the LORD, "so as to make this city like Topheth. |
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| Jeremiah 19:13 |
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"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."'" |
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| Jeremiah 19:14 |
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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: |
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| Jeremiah 19:15 |
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"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.'" |
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