1Thus saith Jehovah: Go and buy an earthen bottle of the potter, And take with thee the elders of the people, And 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, At the entrance of the pottery-gate, And proclaim there the words Which I shall speak to thee.

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

3Say, Hear the word of Jehovah, Ye kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am about to bring such an evil upon this place, That whoever heareth of it, 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

4For they have forsaken me, And have alienated this place, And have burned incense in it to strange gods, Which neither they, nor their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, And have filled this place with the blood of innocent children,

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

5And have built high places to Baal, To burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings to Baal; Which I ordained not, and commanded not, And which never came 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 are coming, saith Jehovah, When this place shall no more be called Tophet, 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

7For I will in this place bring to naught the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, And I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, And by the hands of them that seek their lives; And their dead bodies will I give for food To the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

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

8And I will make this city a wonder and a hissing; Every one that passeth by it shall wonder and hiss, On account of all its plagues.

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

9For I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and of their daughters, Yea, the flesh of each other shall they eat, In the straitness and the distress With which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall press them.

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

10Then break thou the bottle Before the eyes of the men that go with thee.

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

11And say to them: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, As one breaks a potter’s vessel which cannot be made whole again; And they shall be buried in Tophet, till there is no room 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 and to its inhabitants, saith Jehovah, And I will make this city itself like Tophet;

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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 shall be unclean, like the place of Tophet, All the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, And poured out drink-offerings to strange 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 Tophet, Whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy, And stood in the court of the house of Jehovah, 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

15Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am about to bring upon this city, and upon all the cities belonging to it, All the evil which I have pronounced against it; For they have made their necks stiff, And refused to hearken to my words.

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