耶利米书 19:1

Chinese Union (Simplified)

耶 和 华 如 此 说 ： 你 去 买 窑 匠 的 瓦 瓶 ， 又 带 百 姓 中 的 长 老 和 祭 司 中 的 长 老 ，

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
碎瓶的比喻耶和華這樣說：“你去跟陶匠買一個瓦瓶，要帶著幾位人民的長老和年長的祭司，

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3397, bc 607

Go: Jeremiah 19:10, Jeremiah 19:11, Jeremiah 18:2-4, Jeremiah 32:14, Isaiah 30:14, *marg. Lamentations 4:2, 2 Corinthians 4:7

the ancients of the people: Jeremiah 26:17, Numbers 11:16, 1 Chronicles 24:4-6, Ezekiel 8:11, Ezekiel 8:12, Ezekiel 9:6, Matthew 26:3, Matthew 27:1, Matthew 27:41, Matthew 27:42, Acts 4:5, Acts 4:6

Reciprocal: Judges 7:19 - brake Isaiah 7:11 - a sign Isaiah 20:2 - Go Isaiah 30:29 - Ye shall Jeremiah 13:1 - Go Jeremiah 26:12 - The Lord Jeremiah 27:2 - put Jeremiah 43:9 - great Ezekiel 4:1 - take Ezekiel 12:3 - prepare Hosea 12:10 - used

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord, go and get a potter's earthen bottle,.... From the potter's house, where he had lately been; and where he had been shown, in an emblematic way, what God would do in a short time with the Jews; and which is here further illustrated by this emblem: or, "go and get", or "buy, a bottle of the potter, an earthen one" k; so Kimchi; called in Hebrew "bakbuk", from the gurgling of the liquor poured into it, or out of it, or drank out of it, which makes a sound like this word l:

and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; the word "take" is rightly supplied by our translators, as it is by the Targum, the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions; for these words are not to be connected with the former, as in the Vulgate Latin version; as if the prophet was to get or buy the earthen bottle of the elders of the people, and of the priests; but those who were the greatest and principal men of the city, and of which the Jewish sanhedrim consisted, were to be taken by the prophet to be witnesses of what were said and done, to see the bottle broke, and hear what Jeremiah from the Lord had to say; who, from their years, it might be reasonably thought, would seriously attend to those things, and would report them to the people to great advantage; and the Lord, who sent the prophet to them, no doubt inclined their hearts to go along with him; who, otherwise, in all probability, would have refused; and perhaps would have charged him with impertinence and boldness, and would have rejected his motion with contempt, as foolish or mad.

k וקנית בקבק יוצר חרש "emas, [vel] emito oenophorum a figulo testaceum", Munster, Tigurine version. So Kimchi and Ben Melech. l Vid. Stockium, p. 150.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Get (i. e., purchase) a potter’s earthen bottle - The “bottle” was a flask with a long neck, and took its name from the noise made by liquids in running out.

The ancients - These “elders” were the regularly constituted representatives of the people (see Jeremiah 29:1; Numbers 11:16), and the organization lasted down to our Saviour’s time Matthew 26:47. Similarly the priests had also their representatives 2 Kings 19:2. Accompanied thus by the representatives of Church and State, the prophet was to carry the earthen bottle, the symbol of their mean origin and frail existence, outside the walls of Jerusalem.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIX

By the significant type of breaking a potter's vessel, Jeremiah

is directed to predict the utter desolation of Judah and

Jerusalem, 1-15.

The prophets taught frequently by symbolic actions as well as

by words.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIX

Verse Jeremiah 19:1. Go and get a potter's earthen bottle — This discourse was also delivered some time in the reign of Jehoiakim. Under the type of breaking a potter's earthen bottle or jug, Jeremiah shows his enemies that the word of the Lord should stand, that Jerusalem should be taken and sacked, and they all carried into captivity.

Ancients of the priests — The chiefs of the twenty-four classes which David had established. See 1 Chronicles 24:4.