And even make this city as Tophet. —This is an allusive reference partly to the state of the valley of Hinnom as a heap of ruins and rubbi…

As he had said before that the valley would be the place of slaughter, so that it might take its name from there, so he now declares the same conce…

Thus will I do unto this place, says the Lord, and to the inhabitants of it. To the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants…

The potter's vessel, after it is hardened, can never be mended when it is broken. And as the bottle was broken, so will Judah and Jerusalem be brok…

Here, the prophet signifies the previously mentioned punishment through an action.

1. He describes the action: you shall break th…