1Thus said the Lord, "Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

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Ezekiel 8:11, Ezekiel 8:12, Ezekiel 8:11, Ezekiel 8:12, Jeremiah 18:2

2and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;

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Joshua 15:8, Joshua 15:8, 2 Kings 23:10, 2 Kings 23:10, 2 Chronicles 33:6

3and say, 'Hear the word of the Lord, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.

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1 Samuel 3:11, 1 Samuel 3:11, Jeremiah 17:20, Jeremiah 17:20, Isaiah 28:19

4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they did not know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

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Jeremiah 2:34, Jeremiah 2:34, Deuteronomy 28:20, Isaiah 65:11, 2 Kings 21:16

5and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I did not command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:

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Jeremiah 32:35, Jeremiah 32:35, Deuteronomy 12:31, Deuteronomy 12:31, Psalms 106:37

6therefore, behold, the days come," says the Lord, "that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.

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Joshua 15:8, Joshua 15:8, Isaiah 30:33, Jeremiah 19:2, Isaiah 30:33

7I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

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Leviticus 26:17, Leviticus 26:17, Jeremiah 16:4, Jeremiah 16:4, Jeremiah 15:2

8I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

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Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 49:13, 1 Kings 9:8, Jeremiah 49:13

9I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them."'

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Isaiah 9:20, Isaiah 9:20, Leviticus 26:29, Lamentations 4:10, Leviticus 26:29

10Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,

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Jeremiah 19:1, Jeremiah 51:63, Jeremiah 51:64, Jeremiah 19:1, Jeremiah 51:63

11and shall tell them, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

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Psalms 2:9, Psalms 2:9, Isaiah 30:14, Isaiah 30:14, Lamentations 4:2

12Thus will I do to this place," says the Lord, "and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth:

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Jeremiah 10:13, Jeremiah 11:5, Jeremiah 10:13, Jeremiah 11:5

13and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods."'"

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Jeremiah 32:29, 2 Kings 23:12, Jeremiah 32:29, 2 Kings 23:12, Zephaniah 1:5

14Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord's house, and said to all the people:

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Jeremiah 26:2, Jeremiah 26:2, 2 Chronicles 20:5, 2 Chronicles 20:5, Jeremiah 19:2

15"Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.'"

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Jeremiah 7:26, Jeremiah 7:26, Jeremiah 17:23, Jeremiah 17:23, Nehemiah 9:29