These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Jeremiah 19
Tanakh 15 verses
- 1 Thus said : Go, and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
- 2 and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee;
- 3 and say: Hear ye the of , O kings of , and inhabitants of ; thus saith of hosts, the of : Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle;
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because they have forsaken Me, and have estranged this place, and have offered in it unto other Elohims, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of ; and have filled this place with the of innocents;
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Jeremiah 2:34 Deuteronomy 28:20 Isaiah 65:11 2 Kings 21:16 Jeremiah 7:9 Isaiah 59:7 Jeremiah 17:13 Daniel 9:5-15 Jeremiah 2:17 Jeremiah 2:13 2 Kings 24:4 Jeremiah 2:19 Jeremiah 11:13 Deuteronomy 31:16-18 Revelation 16:6 Jeremiah 5:6 Lamentations 4:13 Deuteronomy 13:13 Jeremiah 22:17 Jeremiah 26:23 Deuteronomy 28:64 Deuteronomy 32:15-23 2 Kings 21:4-7 Matthew 23:34-35 Jeremiah 7:31-32 Deuteronomy 28:36 Deuteronomy 13:6 Jeremiah 16:11 2 Chronicles 33:4-7 Jeremiah 18:15 Jeremiah 32:29-35 Jeremiah 26:15 Jeremiah 15:6 2 Kings 22:16-17 2 Kings 23:11-12 Luke 11:50 Jeremiah 2:30 - 5 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither came it into My mind.
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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith , that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter;
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and I will make void the counsel of and in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life; and their carcasses will I give to be food for the fowls of the , and for the beasts of the earth;
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Leviticus 26:17 Jeremiah 16:4 Jeremiah 15:9 Psalm 79:2-3 Isaiah 28:17-18 Deuteronomy 28:25-26 Jeremiah 15:2 Psalm 33:10-11 Jeremiah 34:20 Jeremiah 7:33 Jeremiah 46:26 Proverbs 21:30 Jeremiah 9:21-22 Job 5:12-13 Jeremiah 22:25 Isaiah 8:10 Romans 3:31 Isaiah 30:1-3 Romans 4:14 Jeremiah 8:2 Revelation 19:18-21 Jeremiah 18:21 Lamentations 3:37 Jeremiah 22:19 - 8 and I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof;
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and I will cause them to eat the of their sons and the of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the of his friend, in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall straiten them.
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Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
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and shalt say unto them: Thus saith 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 in Topheth, for want of room to bury.
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Thus will I do unto this place, saith , and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth;
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- 13 and the houses of , and the houses of the kings of , which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have offered unto all the host of , and have poured out drink-offerings unto other Elohims.
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Then came from Topheth, whither had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh’S house, and said to all the people:
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- 15 Thus saith of hosts, the of : Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they might not My words.’