Jeremiah 19 (NET)

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Jeremiah 19:1¹The Lord told Jeremiah, “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take with you some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders of the priests.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 8:11-12 Isa 30:14 Jer 18:2-4 Lam 4:2 Num 11:16 1 Chr 24:4-6 2 Cor 4:7 2 Kgs 19:2 Jer 19:10-11 Acts 4:5-6

Jeremiah 19:2²Go out to the part of the Hinnom Valley that is near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Announce there what I tell you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 15:8 2 Kgs 23:10 2 Chr 28:3 2 Chr 33:6 Jer 32:35 Jer 7:31-32 Acts 20:27 Acts 5:20 Ezek 3:10-11 Jer 1:7

Jeremiah 19:3³Say, ‘Listen to the Lord’ s message, you kings of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem! This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, has said, “Look here! I am about to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it ring.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 3:11 Jer 17:20 2 Kgs 21:12-13 Isa 28:19 Jer 6:19 1 Sam 4:16-18 Jer 13:18 Matt 10:18 Ps 102:15 Ps 110:5

Jeremiah 19:4⁴I will do so because these people have rejected me and have defiled this place. They have offered sacrifices in it to other gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah knew anything about. They have filled it with the blood of innocent children.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 2:34 2 Kgs 21:16 Deut 28:20 Isa 65:11 Jer 7:9 2 Kgs 21:4-7 2 Kgs 24:4 Dan 9:5-15 Deut 32:15-23 Isa 59:7

Jeremiah 19:5⁵They have built places here for worship of the god Baal so that they could sacrifice their children as burnt offerings to him in the fire. Such sacrifices are something I never commanded them to make. They are something I never told them to do! Indeed, such a thing never even entered my mind.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 32:35 Deut 12:31 Lev 18:21 Ps 106:37-38 Ezek 16:20-21 Jer 7:31-32 2 Kgs 17:17 2 Chr 28:3 Dan 2:29 Ezek 20:26

Jeremiah 19:6⁶So I, the Lord, say: “The time will soon come that people will no longer call this place Topheth or the Hinnom Valley. But they will call this valley the Valley of Slaughter!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 15:8 Isa 30:33 Jer 19:2 Jer 19:11 Jer 7:32-33

Jeremiah 19:7⁷In this place I will thwart the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will deliver them over to the power of their enemies who are seeking to kill them. They will die by the sword at the hands of their enemies. I will make their dead bodies food for the birds and wild beasts to eat.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 26:17 Jer 16:4 Deut 28:25-26 Isa 28:17-18 Jer 15:2 Jer 15:9 Jer 34:20 Jer 7:33 Ps 33:10-11 Ps 79:2-3

Jeremiah 19:8⁸I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 18:16 1 Kgs 9:8 Jer 49:13 2 Chr 7:20-21 Jer 25:18 Jer 50:13 Zeph 2:15 Jer 9:9-11 Lam 2:15-16 Lev 26:32

Jeremiah 19:9⁹I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 9:20 Lam 4:10 Lev 26:29 Deut 28:53-57 Ezek 5:10 2 Kgs 6:26-29 Lam 2:20

Jeremiah 19:10¹⁰The Lord continued, “Now break the jar in front of those who have come here with you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 48:12 Jer 51:63-64 Jer 19:1

Jeremiah 19:11¹¹Tell them the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, ‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done. I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel that is broken beyond repair. The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 2:9 Isa 30:14 Lam 4:2 Jer 13:14 Rev 2:27 Jer 19:6 Jer 7:31-32

Jeremiah 19:12¹²I, the Lord, say: ‘That is how I will deal with this city and its citizens. I will make it like Topheth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 10:13 Jer 11:5

Jeremiah 19:13¹³The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled by dead bodies just like this place, Topheth. For they offered sacrifice to the stars and poured out drink offerings to other gods on the roofs of those houses.’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:12 Jer 32:29 Jer 7:18 Zeph 1:5 Deut 4:19 2 Kgs 23:10 Ezek 7:21-22 Jer 44:18 Ps 74:7 Ps 79:1

Jeremiah 19:14¹⁴Then Jeremiah left Topheth where the Lord had sent him to give that prophecy. He went to the Lord ’s temple and stood in its courtyard and called out to all the people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 26:2 2 Chr 20:5 Jer 19:2-3 2 Chr 24:20-21 Acts 5:20 Jer 17:19 Luke 21:37-38

Jeremiah 19:15¹⁵“The Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘I will soon bring on this city and all the towns surrounding it all the disaster I threatened to do to it. I will do so because they have stubbornly refused to pay any attention to what I have said!’”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 7:26 Jer 17:23 Neh 9:29 2 Chr 36:16-17 Acts 7:51-52 Jer 35:15-17 Neh 9:17 Ps 58:2-5 Zech 7:11-14