Jeremiah 19:12
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
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…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
As Topheth had been made unclean (2Ki 23:10) by Josiah, so shall the houses of Jerusalem be.