The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 19:1-15

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EXPOSITION

With this chapter, Jeremiah 19:1-6 of the next ought undoubtedly to be connected to complete the narrative. Jeremiah here comes before us performing another symbolical action. By breaking a potter's vessel he foreshows the ruin impending over Jerusalem for the idolatry practiced in the valley of Hinnom. Not (remarks Graf) as if the worship of Moloch had been restored after the death of Josiah; verse 13, in fact, sufficiently shows that the Tophet had, ever since Josiah's time, continued to be an unclean place, and the sins which are here rebuked are the unexpiated abominations of Manasseh's reign (described in Jeremiah 15:4, as the immediate causes of the Captivity). Jeremiah's prophecy on the Tophet is followed by one on the fate of a certain Pashur, a high officer in the temple. The principal prophecy presents striking points of contact with Jeremiah 7:1-34. (comp. Jeremiah 7:4-6 with Jeremiah 7:30-32; and Jeremiah 7:13 with Jeremiah 7:18; Jeremiah 8:2), and we may presume that the events here related belong to the time to which we have already referred Jeremiah 7:1-34, viz. the early part of the reign of Jehoiakim. The same date is confirmed for the narrative of Pashur by the office which is therein given him; for according to Jeremiah 29:25, Jeremiah 29:26, the office was not held by him, but by Zephaniah.

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