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Chapter 19

Symbol of the Broken Jug. Thus said the Lord: Go forth and purchase a potter’s earthenware jug. Then take along with you some of the elders of the people and some of the priests, and go forth to the Valley of Ben-hinnom,[a] close to the entrance of the Potsherd Gate.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 19:2 The Valley of Ben-hinnom: the scene of the prophet’s symbolic action (see Jer 7:32—8:2) had been declared unholy by King Josiah and had begun to be the rubbish dump for the city. It would later be known as the Valley of Gehenna.

19 This is what the Lord says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter.(A) Take along some of the elders(B) of the people and of the priests and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom,(C) near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you,

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