Jeremiah 19
DOYLYJeremiah 19:4
- — nor the kings of Judah.] The good kings of former times, such as David, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah. W. Lowth.
Jeremiah 19:5
- — to burn their sons — unto Baal.] See notes at Levit. xviii. 21; 2 Kings xxiii. 10; and on chap. xxxii. 35.
Jeremiah 19:8
- — an hissing:] “Hissing” seems to mean here an inarticulate sound, expressing not so much contempt as astonishment mixed with horrour. See chap. xviii. 16. Dr. Blayney.
Jeremiah 19:9
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— I will cause them to eat the flesh &c.] See particularly Deut. xxviii. 53, with the note upon it.
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— and even make this city as Tophet: A place of slaughter and burial for the inhabitants. Bp. Halt.
Jeremiah 19:13
- — upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven.] The Jews having their houses with flat roofs, (see Deut. xxii. 8,) there dedicated altars to the host of heaven, where they could have the fullest view of them: see 2 Kings xxiii. 12; Zeph. i. 5. W. Lowth.
Jeremiah 19:14
- — he stood in the court of the Lord’s house:] The
great court of the temple, which is called the “outer court,” Ezek. xlvi. 21. W. Lowth.
- — upon all her towns! All the cities of Judah and Benjamin are meant, which acknowledged Jerusalem for their metropolis, and were subordinate to her, Dr. Blayney.
Chap. XX. ver. 1. Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, &c.] The family of Immer was the sixteenth in order of the four and twenty courses of the priests: see 1 Chron. xxiv. 14: and this Pashur, by being head of his family, had a principal authority in directing matters relating to the temple, and keeping good order there. He is therefore called “chief governour,” or “a chief governour in the house of the Lord:” see 1 Chron. xxiv. 5. So Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, are called “rulers of the house of God,” 2 Chron. xxxv. 8; because the first of them was chief priest, and the other two probably heads of their courses. W. Lowth.