John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 19:13

"and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods." — Jeremiah 19:13 (ASV)

And the houses of Jerusalem
Where the common people dwelt: and the houses of the kings of Judah ;
the palaces of the king, princes, and nobles of Judah, one as well as another:

shall be defiled os Tophet ;
as that was defiled with the bodies and bones of the slain, and with the faith of the city brought unto it; so the houses of great and small, high and low, should be defiled with the carcasses of the slain that should lie unburied there; their houses should be their graves, and they buried in the ruins of them: or, "the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled" ^F19 , with the idolatries after mentioned, shall be as Tophet, places of slaughter:

because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burnt incense to
all the host of heaven ;
the roofs of houses with the Jews were built flat; and, as they sometimes used them for prayer to the God of heaven, as Peter did, (Acts 10:9) ; idolaters used them to burn incense on to the sun, moon, and stars; to which they were nearer, and of which they could have a clearer view upon the house tops, and therefore chose them for this purpose; and so common was this sort of idolatry, that it was practised upon most, if not all, the houses in Jerusalem; see (Zephaniah 1:5) ;

and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods ;
besides the God of Israel; to Baal, and other Heathen deities.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F19: (Myamjh) "quae pollutae sunt", Gataker.