Jeremiah 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets.

Jeremiah 19
A high resolution scan of the Aleppo Codex showing the Book of Jeremiah (the sixth book in Nevi'im).
BookBook of Jeremiah
Hebrew Bible partNevi'im
Order in the Hebrew part6
CategoryLatter Prophets
Christian Bible partOld Testament
Order in the Christian part24

Text

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The original text was written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 15 verses.

Textual witnesses

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Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008).[1] Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 4QJera (4Q70; 225-175 BCE[2][3]) with the extant verse 1,[4] and 4QJerc (4Q72; 1st century BC)[5] with extant verses 8-9 (similar to Masoretic Text).[6][7][8]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B;  B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK:  S; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A;  A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q;  Q; 6th century).[9]

Parashot

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The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex.[10] Jeremiah 19 is a part of the Seventh prophecy (Jeremiah 18-20) in the section of Prophecies of Destruction (Jeremiah 1-25). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.

{S} 19:1-5 {P} 19:6-13 {P} 19:14 {S} 19:15 [20:1-3 {S}]

Verse 1

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Thus says the Lord: "Go and get a potter’s earthen flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests."[11]
  • "Take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests": In the King James Version: take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests,[12] in the Septuagint, "take some of the elders of the people, and [some] of the priests" (Greek: ἀπὸ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἱερέων).[13]

Verse 2

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Valley of Hinnom, 2007.
And go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there the words that I will tell you,[14]

Verse 6

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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.[18]

Using the setting of the valley, Jeremiah prophecies the people's horrible future that make them "resort to cannibalism", as one of the "curses for covenant violation" (Leviticus 26:29; Deuteronomy 28:53).[19]

See also

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  • Related Bible parts: Jeremiah 7, Lamentations 2, Lamentations 4, Ezekiel 5
  • References

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    1. ^ Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
    2. ^ Cross, F.M. apud Freedman, D.N.; Mathews, K.A. (1985). The Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll (11QpaleoLev). Winona Lake, Indiana. p. 55
    3. ^ Sweeney, Marvin A. (2010). Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature. Forschungen zum Alten Testament. Vol. 45 (reprint ed.). Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 66. ISBN 9781608994182. ISSN 0940-4155.
    4. ^ Fitzmyer 2008, p. 37.
    5. ^ "The Evolution of a Theory of the Local Texts" in Cross, F.M.; Talmon, S. (eds) (1975) Qumran and the History of Biblical Text (Cambridge, MA - London). p.308 n. 8
    6. ^ Tov, Emanuel (1989). "The Jeremiah Scrolls from Qumran". Revue de Qumrân. 14 (2 (54)). Editions Gabalda: 189–206. ISSN 0035-1725. JSTOR 24608791.
    7. ^ Fitzmyer 2008, p. 38.
    8. ^ Ulrich 2010, p. 568.
    9. ^ Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
    10. ^ As reflected in the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 edition of the Hebrew Bible in English.
    11. ^ Jeremiah 19:1 NKJV
    12. ^ Jeremiah 19:1 KJV
    13. ^ "Jeremiah 19 Swete's Septuagint". biblehub.com.
    14. ^ Jeremiah 19:2 NKJV
    15. ^ Hebrew Text Analysis: Jeremiah 19:2. Biblehub
    16. ^ Poole, Matthew, A Commentary on the Holy Bible. "Jeremiah 19", accessed on 22 August 2019.
    17. ^ Ellicott, C. J. (Ed.) 1905). Ellicott's Bible Commentary for English Readers. Jeremiah 19. London : Cassell and Company, Limited, [1905-1906] Online version: (OCoLC) 929526708. Accessed 28 April 2019.
    18. ^ Jeremiah 19:6 KJV
    19. ^ Coogan 2007, pp. 1108-1109 Hebrew Bible.

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