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Judgment Reaches Every Home
Commentators stress that the judgment wasn't confined to a single 'unholy' place like Topheth. It would extend to every house in Jerusalem, from common dwellings to the king's palace. This illustrates a key principle: when sin becomes pervasive and infects the home, God's judgment becomes equally comprehensive, and no amount of wealth or status can provide an escape.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 19:13
18th Century
Theologian
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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Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 19:13
19th Century
Bishop
Defiled as the place of Tophet.— A difficulty affecting the construction, but not the meaning, of the passage makes the rendering …
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 19:13
16th Century
Theologian
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 …
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 19:13
17th Century
Pastor
And the houses of Jerusalem
Where the common people dwelt: and the houses of the kings of Judah
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…