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,
2 and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
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,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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,
- KJV
- Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
- WEB
- Thus said the LORD, “Go, and buy a potter’s earthen container, and take some of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests;
- ASV
- Thus said Jehovah, Go, and buy a potter`s earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
- DARBY
- Thus saith Jehovah: Go and buy a potter's earthen flagon, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
- BLB
- Thus says YHWH: “Go and acquire [from] a potter a clay jar, and [take] some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests,
- ÅB
- Så sa Herren: Gå og kjøp en pottemakerkrukke, og ta med deg noen av folkets eldste og av prestenes eldste,
- OTB
- Dette sier Herren: "Gå og kjøp en leirkrukke fra en pottemaker, og ta med noen av folkets eldste og noen av de eldste prestene.
- B1930
- Så sa Herren: Gå og kjøp en pottemakerkrukke, og ta med dig nogen av folkets eldste og av prestenes eldste,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 8:11–12
Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.
Read in contextIsaiah 30:14
It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
Read in contextJeremiah 18:2–4
“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.”
Read in contextNumbers 11:16
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.
Read in contextLamentations 4:2
How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
Read in contextJeremiah 19:10–11
Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,
Read in context1 Chronicles 24:4–6
Since more leaders were found among Eleazar’s descendants than those of Ithamar, they were divided accordingly. There were sixteen heads of families from the descendants of Eleazar and eight from the descendants of Ithamar.
Read in context2 Kings 19:2
And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz
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