And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
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Gill's Exposition
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof,.... To the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants, as was done to the earthen bottle, and as before threatened:
and…
Barnes' Notes
Made whole again - literally, “healed.” In this lies the distinction between this symbol and that of Jer 18:4. The plastic clay can be shaped and re-shaped until the potter forms with it the vessel he…
The message of wrath delivered in the foregoing verses is here enforced, that it might gain credit, two ways: -
I. By a visible sign. The prophet was to take along with him an earthen bottle (Jer…
Cambridge Bible
and they shall bury … to bury The absence of connexion shews this (not found in LXX) to be an insertion from Jer 7:32. Gi. and Schmidt omit the clause and onwards to end of Jer 19:19.
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