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Jeremiah 1–20: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jeremiah, long considered one of the most colorful of the ancient Israelite prophets, comes to life in Jack R. Lundbom’s Jeremiah 1–20. From his boyhood call to prophecy in 627 B.C.E., which Jeremiah tried to refuse, to his scathing judgments against the sins and hypocrisy of the people of Israel, Jeremiah charged through life with passion and emotion. He saw his fellow Israelites abandon their...

13:9. In Egypt, pottery bowls with the names of enemies on them were broken symbolically at a sacred place in order to bring about the enemies’ destruction (“The Execration of Asiatic Princes” in ANET3 328–29; cf. Bentzen 1950; J. A. Wilson 1951: 156–58). and in Topheth they will bury for lack of space to bury. The LXX omits, which could be another haplography if the resh was confused with dalet (homoeoteleuton: d … r). See 7:32. 12. this place … making this city. “This place” refers to Jerusalem,
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