Jeremiah 19:12

This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.

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KJV

Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:

ASV

Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth:

YLT

so I do to this place--an affirmation of Jehovah--and to its inhabitants, so as to make this city as Tophet;

DBT

Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to the inhabitants thereof, and make this city as Topheth.

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(Verse 12.) And they will bury (or be buried) in Topheth, because there is no other place to bury. Thus I will do to this place, says the Lord, and to its inhabitants, and I will make this city like Topheth (or like ruins), and the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be like Topheth (or like ruins). But what is inserted in the Septuagint: All the houses of the kings of Judah, like Topheth, is not found in the Hebrew. And it follows:

Jerome· Commentary on Jeremiah, 420patristic

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Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof,....

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Jeremiah 11:5
This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
Jeremiah 10:13
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

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About this book

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Jeremiah 10:13
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from…
leads to
- Psalms 135:7
  He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- Job 38:22
  Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
- Job 38:34–35
  Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
- Psalms 18:13
  The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.
Through
Jeremiah 11:5
This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
leads to
- Psalms 105:9–11
  the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
- Deuteronomy 7:12–13
  If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.
- Jeremiah 28:6
  “Amen!” Jeremiah said. “May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied, and may He restore the articles of His house and all the exiles back to this place…
- Deuteronomy 6:3
  Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers,…

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