19This is what the Lord says: “Go, buy a potter’s clay^w jar. Take^E some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests^x ²and go out to Ben Hinnom Valley^y near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you. ³Say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem.^z This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such a disaster on this place that everyone who hears about it will shudder^F^aa ⁴because they have abandoned me^ab and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their ancestors, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.^ac ⁵They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, something I have never commanded or mentioned; I never entertained the thought.^A^ad

⁶“ ‘Therefore, look, the days are coming^ae—this is the Lord’s declaration—when this place will no longer be called Topheth and Ben Hinnom Valley, but Slaughter Valley.^a

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Footnotes

E, ; omits Take
F about it, his ears will tingle; obscure
A mentioned, and it did not arise on my heart

Cross references

w Jr 18:2
x 2Kg 19:2
y 2Kg 23:10; 2Ch 28:3; Jr 7:31–32
z Jr 17:20
aa 1Sm 3:11; 2Kg 21:12
ab Dt 28:20; 31:16; 1Sm 8:8; 1Kg 11:33; 2Kg 22:17; 2Ch 34:25; Jr 1:16; 5:7
ac Dt 19:10; 27:25; 2Kg 21:6,16; 24:4; Is 59:7; Jr 2:34
ad Jr 7:31; 32:35
ae Jr 7:32; 16:14; 23:5; 48:12; 49:2; 51:47,52
a Jr 25:34