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Jeremiah
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Thus said the LORD, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests; See also: Ezekiel 8:11-12Jeremiah 18:2-4Numbers 11:16and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you. See also: Joshua 15:82 Kings 23:10Jeremiah 7:31-32Say, ‘Hear the LORD’s word, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle. See also: 1 Samuel 3:11Jeremiah 17:20Jeremiah 6:19Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know—they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah—and have filled this place with the blood of innocents, See also: Jeremiah 2:34Isaiah 65:112 Kings 21:16and have built the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I didn’t command, nor speak, which didn’t even enter into my mind. See also: Jeremiah 32:35Deuteronomy 12:31Psalms 106:37-38Therefore, behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that this place will no more be called ‘Topheth’, nor ‘The Valley of the son of Hinnom’, but ‘The valley of Slaughter’. See also: Joshua 15:8Isaiah 30:33Jeremiah 19:2“‘“I will make the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem void in this place. I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies to be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth. See also: Leviticus 26:17Jeremiah 16:4Psalms 33:10-11I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues. See also: Jeremiah 18:16Jeremiah 49:131 Kings 9:8I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.”’ See also: Isaiah 9:20Lamentations 4:10Leviticus 26:29“Then you shall break the container in the sight of the men who go with you, See also: Jeremiah 48:12Jeremiah 51:63-64Jeremiah 19:1and 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. See also: Psalms 2:9Isaiah 30:14Lamentations 4:2This is what I will do to this place,” says the LORD, “and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth. See also: Jeremiah 11:5Jeremiah 10:13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’” See also: 2 Kings 23:12Jeremiah 32:29Jeremiah 7:18Then 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: See also: Jeremiah 26:22 Chronicles 20:5Jeremiah 19:2-3“The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’” See also: Jeremiah 7:26Jeremiah 17:23Nehemiah 9:29
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)10 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Jeremiah 19:1
Ver. 1. Priests. They were to furnish the vessel, and accompany the prophets.
v. 10. Sept. "and thou shalt take some of," &c. H. --- Words and actions together instruct most powerfully. S. Jer.
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↑ 1Jeremiah 19:2
Ver. 2. Gate, which must have been to the south-east of Jerusalem, leading to the valley. C. ---
Sept. "Charseith gate." H. --- Here the common people were buried, after the reign of Josias, who contaminated the place where the idol Moloc had been adored.
↑ 2Jeremiah 19:3
Ver. 3. Tingle, as if he had heard a sudden noise or clap of thunder. C.
↑ 3Jeremiah 19:4
Ver. 4. Profaned. Lit. "rendered strange." H. --- I have no farther regard for it. ---
Innocents: their own children. v. 5. C. vii. 31.
↑ 4Jeremiah 19:5
Ver. 5. Mind. Perhaps the people stupidly thought thus to honour him; but God pointedly condemns such sacrifices.
↑ 5Jeremiah 19:6
Ver. 6. Valley. Sept. "burial-place of slaughter." v. 2. Here the Chaldees slew many.
↑ 6Jeremiah 19:9
Ver. 9. Sons, to punish them for their cruel sacrifices. S. Jer. --- This was verified under Sedecias. Lam. ii. 10. and iv. 10. Ezec. v. 10.
↑ 9Jeremiah 19:11
Ver. 11. Again. The captives indeed returned, so that this must not be urged too much. C. --- Yet the Romans strictly fulfilled this prophecy, (S. Jer. Sanctius) and the city was built in another place, and styled Ælia. H. --- God can perform what is impossible to man. C. xviii. 3. Mat. xix.
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↑ 11Jeremiah 19:13
Ver. 13. Topheth. This sentence was not in S. Jerom's Hebrew copy, but in the Sept. (C.) with some variations: (H.) "All the houses of the kings of Juda, like the place of Topheth," is added by the Sept. S. Jer. --- In Grabe they agree with the present Heb. and Chal. only rendering, "shall be as a place in ruin, for the defilements in all," &c. H. --- Of heaven: the moon, &c. 4 K. xxiii. 12.
Josias could not entirely root out this impiety. C. xxxii. 29. His wicked son Joachaz or Sellum, was probably now on the throne, when the prophet went to the potter, &c. C. xviii. to xxi.
↑ 13Jeremiah 19:14
Ver. 14. People. Many still resorted to the temple. C.
↑ 14License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses