--- title: "Clarke" description: "Verse Jeremiah 19:1. Go and get a potter" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/jeremiah/19" --- Verse [Jeremiah 19:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/19/1). ***Go and get a potter's earthen bottle*** — This discourse was also delivered some time in the reign of *Jehoiakim*. Under the type of breaking a potter's earthen bottle or jug, Jeremiah shows his enemies that the word of the Lord should stand, that Jerusalem should be taken and sacked, and they all carried into captivity. ***Ancients of the priests*** — The chiefs of the *twenty-four* classes which David had established. See [1 Chronicles 24:4](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/24/4). Verse [Jeremiah 19:4](../../../kjv/jeremiah/19/4). ***Estranged this place*** — Ye have devoted my temple to a widely different purpose from that for which it was erected. Verse [Jeremiah 19:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/19/5). ***Offerings unto Baal*** — A general name for all the popular idols; Baal, Moloch, Ashtaroth, &c. Verse [Jeremiah 19:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/19/7). ***I will make void the counsel of Judah*** — Probably this refers to some determination made to proclaim themselves *independent*, and pay no more tribute to the Chaldeans. ***To be meat for the fowls*** — [Jeremiah 7:33](../../../kjv/jeremiah/7/33). Verse [Jeremiah 19:9](../../../kjv/jeremiah/19/9). ***I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons*** — This was literally fulfilled when Jerusalem was besieged by the Romans. This also the prophet might have had in view. Verse [Jeremiah 19:11](../../../kjv/jeremiah/19/11). ***Even so will I break this people and this city*** — The breaking of the bottle was the symbolical representation of the destruction of the city and of the state. ***That cannot be made whole again*** — This seems to refer rather to the final destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, than to what was done by the Chaldeans. Jerusalem was *healed* after 70 years: but nearly 1800 years have elapsed since Jerusalem was taken and destroyed by the Romans; and it was then so broken, *that it could* *not be made whole again*. Verse [Jeremiah 19:12](../../../kjv/jeremiah/19/12). ***And even make this city as Tophet*** — A place of slaughter and destruction. Verse [Jeremiah 19:14](../../../kjv/jeremiah/19/14). ***Then came Jeremiah from Tophet*** — He had probably gone to the *valley of Hinnom*, and there repeated the discourse which he had a little before delivered to the chief priests and elders. Verse [Jeremiah 19:15](../../../kjv/jeremiah/19/15). ***Because they have hardened their necks*** — A metaphor taken from unruly and unbroken oxen, who resist the yoke, break and run away with their gears. 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