Jeremiah 19
Jeremiah 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets.
Text
The original text was written in Hebrew language. [Chapters and verses of the Bible|This Chapters and verses of the Bible|chapter is divided into] 15 verses.Textual witnesses
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis. Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 4QJera with the extant verse 1, and 4QJerc with extant verses 8-9.There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.
Parashot
The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Jeremiah 19 is a part of the Seventh prophecy in the section of Prophecies of Destruction . : open parashah; : closed parashah.Verse 1
- "Take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests": In the King James Version: take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests, in the Septuagint, "take some of the elders of the people, and of the priests".
Verse 2
- Cross references: Jeremiah 7:31, [|19:6]
- "The valley of the Son of Hinnom": from, -, located very near to Jerusalem, of which a certain Hinnom was owner in Joshua's time, later is known as "Ge-hinnom", that became the Greek word Gehenna, used by Jesus in Matthew 5:22. The site was 'the scene of the most hateful form of idolatry', perhaps also connected locally with the potter's field..
Verse 6
- Cross references: ; ; Jeremiah 7:31, [|19:2]