Jeremiah 19:12 BSB — MannaFest

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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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

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Commentary on Jeremiah (420)

(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:

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כֵּֽן־	ken-	thus	H3651 →
אֶעֱשֶׂ֞ה	'e.'e.Seh	I will do	H6213 →
לַמָּק֥וֹם	la.ma.Kom	to the place	H4725 →
הַזֶּ֛ה	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
נְאֻם־	ne.'um-	[the] utterance of	H5002 →
יְהוָ֖ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וּלְיֽוֹשְׁבָ֑יו	u.le.yo.she.Vav	and to inhabitants its	H3427 →
וְלָתֵ֛ת	ve.la.Tet	and to make	H5414 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הָעִ֥יר	ha.'Ir	the city	H5892 →
הַזֹּ֖את	ha.Zot	<the> this	H2063 →
כְּתֹֽפֶת׃	ke.To.fet	like Topheth	H8612 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Through
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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