OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 19:11

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and shall tell them, ‘The LORD of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth until there is no place to bury.

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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.

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