John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 19:12

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, etc.] 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, (<241906>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.

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