Jeremiah 19 in the early church

[Vulgate: Jeremias]

10 passages quote, allude to, or echo Jeremiah 19, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 1 · 3 · 6 · 7 · 10 · 11 · 13 · 14

Jeremiah 19:1

This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,

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Jer 19:1Homilies on Jeremiah 18.1 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 240
Jer 19:1–3Commentary on Jeremiah 4.11 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 19:3

saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,

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Jer 19:3–5Commentary on Jeremiah 4.12 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 19:6

So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

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Jer 19:6Commentary on Jeremiah 4.13 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419
Jer 19:6Commentary on Jeremiah 4.17 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 19:7

And in this place I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

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Jer 19:7–9Commentary on Jeremiah 4.14 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 19:10

Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,

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Jer 19:10–13Commentary on Jeremiah 4.15 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 19:11

and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.

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Jer 19:11Homilies on Jeremiah 18.1 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 240

Jeremiah 19:13

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”

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Jer 19:13Commentary on Jeremiah 4.17 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419

Jeremiah 19:14

Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,

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Jer 19:14–15Commentary on Jeremiah 4.18 · Jeromequotation, high confidenceca. 414-419