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A City Like Tophet
Commentators explain that God's declaration to make Jerusalem "as Tophet" was a horrifying image. It meant the city would become like the cursed valley—a place filled with corpses, a ruinous and filthy dump, and an object of utter scorn and contempt. The judgment would be total, transforming the holy city into a place of death and defilement.
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Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 19:12
19th Century
Bishop
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…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 19:12
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 19:12
17th Century
Pastor
Thus will I do unto this place, says the Lord, and to the inhabitants of it. To the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants…
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Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 19:10–15
17th Century
Minister
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…