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Take<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.19.1.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.1.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.2" /> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and go out to Ben Hinnom Valley<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.2.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.3" /> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Say, ‘Hear the word of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>, kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.3.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> This is what the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such a disaster on this place that everyone who hears about it will shudder<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.19.3.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.3.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.4" /> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>because they have abandoned me<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.4.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their ancestors, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.4.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, something I have never commanded or mentioned; I never entertained the thought.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Jeremiah.19.5.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.5.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“ ‘Therefore, look, the days are coming<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.6.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> — this is the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s declaration — when this place will no longer be called Topheth and Ben Hinnom Valley, but Slaughter Valley.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.6.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I will spoil the plans of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hand of those who intend to take their life. I will provide their corpses as food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.7.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be appalled and scoff because of all its wounds.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.8.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the distressing siege inflicted on them by their enemies who intend to take their life.’<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.9.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the people going with you, <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and you are to proclaim to them, ‘This is what the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies says: I will shatter these people and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be mended. They will bury the dead in Topheth because there is no other place for burials.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.11.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>That is what I will do to this place — this is the declaration of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> — and to its residents, making this city like Topheth. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth — all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to all the stars in the sky<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.13.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> and poured out drink offerings to other gods.’ ”</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.14" /> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> had sent him to prophesy, stood in the courtyard of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s temple,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> and proclaimed to all the people, <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Jeremiah.19.15" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“This is what the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to bring on this city — and on all its cities — every disaster that I spoke against it, for they have become obstinate, not obeying my words.’ ”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Jeremiah.19.15.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><br /><section id="footnotes-Jeremiah.19" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.19.1.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.1">19:1</a></span> Syr, Tg; MT omits <span class="italic">Take</span></aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.19.3.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.3">19:3</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">about it, his ears will tingle</span> ; Hb obscure</aside><aside id="fn.Jeremiah.19.5.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.5">19:5</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">mentioned, and it did not arise on my heart</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Jeremiah.19" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.1.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.1">19:1</a></span> Jr 18:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.1.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.1">19:1</a></span> 2Kg 19:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.2">19:2</a></span> 2Kg 23:10; 2Ch 28:3; Jr 7:31–32</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.3">19:3</a></span> Jr 17:20</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.3.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.3">19:3</a></span> 1Sm 3:11; 2Kg 21:12</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.4.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.4">19:4</a></span> Dt 28:20; 31:16; 1Sm 8:8; 1Kg 11:33; 2Kg 22:17; 2Ch 34:25; Jr 1:16; 5:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.4.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.4">19:4</a></span> Dt 19:10; 27:25; 2Kg 21:6,16; 24:4; Is 59:7; Jr 2:34</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.5.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.5">19:5</a></span> Jr 7:31; 32:35</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.6.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.6">19:6</a></span> Jr 7:32; 16:14; 23:5; 48:12; 49:2; 51:47,52</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.6.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.6">19:6</a></span> Jr 25:34</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.7.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.7">19:7</a></span> Dt 28:26; Ps 79:2; Jr 7:33; 15:3; 16:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.8.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.8">19:8</a></span> Dt 28:37; 2Ch 29:8; 30:7; Jr 5:30; 25:9,18; 29:18; 42:18; 44:12,22; 49:17; 50:13; Mc 1:9; 6:16; Nah 3:19; Zph 2:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.9.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.9">19:9</a></span> Dt 28:53–57; Lm 4:10; Ezk 5:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.11.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.11">19:11</a></span> Jr 7:32</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.13.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.13">19:13</a></span> Dt 4:19; 2Kg 17:16; 23:4–5; Zph 1:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.14">19:14</a></span> 2Ch 20:5; Jr 26:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Jeremiah.19.15.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Jeremiah.19.15">19:15</a></span> Jr 7:26</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Jeremiah.19" class="snSection"><br /></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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