Focused Passage
The Broken Jar, Topheth, and the Disaster Judah Cannot Repair
The chapter moves from the LORD’s command to buy a potter’s jar and gather leaders, to a public oracle at the Valley of Ben Hinnom, to the naming of Judah’s abominations and bloodguilt, to the renaming of Topheth as the Valley of Slaughter, to siege horrors including cannibalism, to Jeremiah’s smashing of the jar as an irreversible sign, to the declaration that Jerusalem will become like Topheth, and finally to Jeremiah’s temple-court proclamation that disaster will come because the people stiffened their necks and would not listen.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
14 Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,
15 “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
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