Jeremiah
Verse 1. Priests. They were to furnish the vessel, and accompany the prophets. verse 10. Septuagint “and thou shalt take some of,” and so forth Bible.—Words and actions together instruct most powerfully. Saint Jerome Worthington.
EXPLANATIONS
Jeremiah 19
Historical chapter commentary
Jeremiah
Verse 2. Gate, which must have been to the south-east of Jerusalem, leading to the valley. Calmet.—Septuagint “Charseith gate.” Bible.—Here the common people were buried, after the reign of Josias, who contaminated the place where the idol Moloc had been adored.
Jeremiah
Verse 3. Tingle, as if he had heard a sudden noise or clap of thunder. Calmet.
Jeremiah
Verse 4. Profaned. Lit. “rendered strange.” Bible.—I have no farther regard for it.—Innocents: their own children. verse 5. Calmet. 7:31.
Jeremiah
Verse 5. Mind. Perhaps the people stupidly thought thus to honour him; but God pointedly condemns such sacrifices.
Jeremiah
Verse 6. Valley. Septuagint “burial-place of slaughter.” verse 2. Here the Chaldees slew many.
Jeremiah
Verse 9. Sons, to punish them for their cruel sacrifices. Saint Jerome—This was verified under Sedecias. Lamentations 2:10 and 4:10. Ezekiel 5:10.
Jeremiah
Verse 11. Again. The captives indeed returned, so that this must not be urged too much. Calmet.—Yet the Romans strictly fulfilled this prophecy, (Saint Jerome Sanctius) and the city was built in another place, and styled Ælia. Bible.—God can perform what is impossible to man. Calmet. 18:3. Matthew 19. Worthington.
Jeremiah
Verse 13. Topheth. This sentence was not in S. Jerom’s Hebrew copy, but in the Septuagint ( Calmet.) with some variations: ( Bible.) “All the houses of the kings of Juda, like the place of Topheth,” is added by the Septuagint Saint Jerome—In Grabe they agree with the present Hebrew and Chal. only rendering, “shall be as a place in ruin, for the defilements in all,” and so forth Bible.—Of heaven: the moon, &chapter 4 Kennicott. 23:12. Josias could not entirely root out this impiety. Calmet. 32:29. His wicked son Joachaz or Sellum, was probably now on the throne, when the prophet went to the potter, and so forth Calmet. 18 to 21.
Jeremiah
Verse 14. People. Many still resorted to the temple. Calmet.