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the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Good News Translation

Jeremiah 19:12

I promise that I will make this city and its inhabitants like Topheth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Instruction;   Tophet;   The Topic Concordance - Defilement;   Forsaking;   Idolatry;   Paganism;   Sacrifice;   Violence;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Prophets;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hell;   Jerusalem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ben-Hinnom;   Jeremiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hinnom, Valley of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Topheth;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jeremi'ah;   To'pheth,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Moloch;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mouth;   Topheth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
That is what I will do to this place—this is the declaration of the Lord—and to its residents, making this city like Topheth.
Hebrew Names Version
Thus will I do to this place, says the LORD, and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Tofet:
King James Version
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord , and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
English Standard Version
Thus will I do to this place, declares the Lord , and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.
New American Standard Bible
"This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants," declares the LORD, "so as to make this city like Topheth.
New Century Version
This is what I will do to these people and to this place, says the Lord . I will make this city like Topheth.
Amplified Bible
"This I will do to this place," says the LORD, "and to its inhabitants; and I will even make this city like Topheth.
World English Bible
Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to the inhabitants of it, even making this city as Topheth:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus will I doe vnto this place, sayth the Lorde, and to the inhabitantes thereof, and I will make this citie like Topheth.
Legacy Standard Bible
This is what I will do to this place and its inhabitants," declares Yahweh, "so as to make this city like Topheth.
Berean Standard Bible
This is what I will do to this place and to its residents, declares the LORD. I will make this city like Topheth.
Contemporary English Version
I will make Jerusalem as unclean as Topheth, by filling the city with your dead bodies. I will do this because you and your kings have gone up to the roofs of your houses and burned incense to the stars in the sky, as though they were gods. And you have given sacrifices of wine to foreign gods.
Complete Jewish Bible
That is what I will do to this place,' says Adonai ‘and to its inhabitants; I will make it like Tofet.
Darby Translation
Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to the inhabitants thereof, and make this city as Topheth.
Easy-to-Read Version
I will do this to these people and to this place. I will make this city like Topheth.' This message is from the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
Thus will I do to this place and to its inhabitants, says the LORD, and even make this city like Taphat;
Lexham English Bible
Thus will I do to this place," declares Yahweh, "and to its inhabitants, to make this city like Topheth.
Literal Translation
I will do this to this place, says Jehovah, and to those living in it, and give this place to be as Tophet.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus wil I do vnto this place also, saieth the LORDE, and to the yt dwell there in: yee I wil do to this cite, as vnto Tophet
American Standard Version
Thus will I do unto this place, saith Jehovah, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth:
Bible in Basic English
This is what I will do to this place, says the Lord, and to its people, making this town like Topheth:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth;
King James Version (1611)
Thus will I doe vnto this place, sayth the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and euen make their citie as Tophet.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus wyll I do vnto this place also saith the Lorde, and to them that dwel therin, yea I wyll make this citie as Thopheth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus will I do, saith the Lord, to this place, and to the inhabitants of it, that this city may be given up, as one that is falling to ruin.
English Revised Version
Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
So Y schal do to this place, seith the Lord, and to dwelleris therof, that Y sette this citee as Tophet.
Update Bible Version
Thus I will do to this place, says Yahweh, and to the inhabitants thereof, even making this city as Topheth:
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus will I do to this place, saith the LORD, and to its inhabitants, and [even] make this city as Tophet:
New English Translation
I, the Lord , say: ‘That is how I will deal with this city and its citizens. I will make it like Topheth.
New King James Version
Thus I will do to this place," says the LORD, "and to its inhabitants, and make this city like Tophet.
New Living Translation
This is what I will do to this place and its people, says the Lord . I will cause this city to become defiled like Topheth.
New Life Bible
This is what I will do to this place and its people," says the Lord. "I will make this city like Topheth.
New Revised Standard
Thus will I do to this place, says the Lord , and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, will I do to this place Declareth Yahweh, And to the inhabitants thereof, - Even making this city like Topheth:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus will I do to this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof: and I will make this city as Topheth.
Revised Standard Version
Thus will I do to this place, says the LORD, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.
Young's Literal Translation
so I do to this place -- an affirmation of Jehovah -- and to its inhabitants, so as to make this city as Tophet;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"This is how I will treat this place and its inhabitants," declares the LORD, "so as to make this city like Topheth.

Contextual Overview

10 Then the Lord told me to break the jar in front of those who had gone with me 11 and to tell them that the Lord Almighty had said, "I will break this people and this city, and it will be like this broken clay jar that cannot be put together again. People will bury their dead even in Topheth because there will be nowhere else to bury them. 12 I promise that I will make this city and its inhabitants like Topheth. 13 The houses of Jerusalem, the houses of the kings of Judah, and indeed all the houses on whose roofs incense has been burned to the stars and where wine has been poured out as an offering to other gods—they will all be as unclean as Topheth." 14 Then I left Topheth, where the Lord had sent me to proclaim his message. I went and stood in the court of the Temple and told all the people 15 that the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, had said, "I am going to bring on this city and on every nearby town all the punishment that I said I would, because you are stubborn and will not listen to what I say."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

make: lit, give, Jeremiah 10:13, Jeremiah 11:5

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 39:16 - Behold

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
The Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right.
Genesis 19:14
Then Lot went to the men that his daughters were going to marry, and said, "Hurry up and get out of here; the Lord is going to destroy this place." But they thought he was joking.
Genesis 19:17
Then one of the angels said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed."
Genesis 19:22
Hurry! Run! I can't do anything until you get there." Because Lot called it small, the town was named Zoar.
Genesis 19:23
The sun was rising when Lot reached Zoar.
Numbers 16:26
He said to the people, "Get away from the tents of these wicked men and don't touch anything that belongs to them. Otherwise, you will be wiped out with them for all their sins."
Jeremiah 32:39
I will give them a single purpose in life: to honor me for all time, for their own good and the good of their descendants.
2 Peter 2:7
He rescued Lot, a good man, who was distressed by the immoral conduct of lawless people.
2 Peter 2:9
And so the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the Day of Judgment,
Revelation 18:4
Then I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out, my people! Come out from her! You must not take part in her sins; you must not share in her punishment!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof,.... To the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants, as was done to the earthen bottle, and as before threatened:

and [even], or also,

make this city as Tophet; as full of slaughtered men and women as that had been of the blood of innocent children; and as filthy, abominable, and execrable a place as that; and to lose its name, as that is foretold it should, Jeremiah 19:6; and as Jerusalem did, after the desolation of it by Hadrian, as Jerom observes; for what was built upon the spot afterwards was by the emperor called Aelia, after his own name.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 19:12. And even make this city as Tophet — A place of slaughter and destruction.


 
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