Jeremiah 19:1

Thus said Yahweh, Go and buy a potter’s earthen bottle,—and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

In Context

2Then shalt thou go forth into the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is at the opening of the gate of potsherds; and proclaim there the words which I shall speak unto thee;

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Cross References

Numbers 11:16Then said Yahweh unto Moses—Gather thou unto me seventy men, from among the elders of Israel, of whom thou knowest that they are elders of the people and their overseers,—then shalt thou take them unto the tent of meeting, and they shall station themselves there with thee.

1 Chronicles 24:4But the sons of Eleazar were found to be more numerous, by the chiefs of their able men, than were the sons of Ithamar, so they divided them,—the sons of Eleazar, had chiefs, of the ancestral house, sixteen, whereas, the sons of Ithamar, had of their ancestral house, eight.

Jeremiah 13:1Thus, said Yahweh unto me,—Go and buy for thyself a linen girdle, and put upon thy loins,—but in water, shalt thou not place it.

Jeremiah 19:10Then shalt thou break the bottle, before the eyes of the men who are walking with thee;

Jeremiah 32:14Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Take thou these scrolls, this scroll of purchase even that which is sealed, and this scroll that is open, and put them in an earthen vessel,—that they may remain many days,

Ezekiel 5:1Thou therefore son of man Take thee a sharp cutting instrument, a barber’s razor, shalt thou take thee, and shalt cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy chin,—and shalt take the balances for weighing, and shalt divide the hair.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 19:1

The same melancholy theme is the subject of this chapter that was of those foregoing—the approaching ruin of Judah and Jerusalem for their sins. This Jeremiah had often foretold; here he has particularly full orders to foretel it again. I. He must set their sins in order before them, as he had often done, especially their idolatry, ver. 4, 5 . II. He must describe the particular judgments which were now coming apace upon them for these sins, ver. 6-9 . III. He must do this in the valley of Tophet, with great… Read the whole commentary →

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