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Because of all - literally, “with reference to all,” limiting the denunciation to those houses whose roofs had been defiled with altars.
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Defiled as the place of Tophet.— A difficulty affecting the construction, but not the meaning, of the pa age makes the rendering <…

He describes, as I have said, in more detail what he had briefly expressed, for he had spoken of the city. But as belief in that was difficult, he …

And the houses of Jerusalem
Where the common people dwelt: and the houses of the kings of Judah

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.
He describes the action: you shall break th…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes