Jeremiah 19:1

God tells Jeremiah to buy a clay flask and gather elders and priests as witnesses. A solemn sign-act is about to be performed.

Cross-references · 16

• Ezek 8:11–12Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.
• Lam 4:2How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!
• Isa 30:14It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
• Num 11:16Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.
• Jer 18:2–4“Go down at once to the potter’s house, and there I will reveal My message to you.”
• 1 Chr 24:4–6Since more leaders were found among Eleazar’s descendants than those of Ithamar, they were divided accordingly. There were sixteen heads of families from the descendants of Eleazar and eight from the descendants of Ithamar.
• Jer 19:10–11Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,
• 2 Kgs 19:2And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz
• 2 Cor 4:7Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
• Matt 26:3At that time the chief priests and elders of the people assembled in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,
• Ezek 9:6Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
• Jer 26:17Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to the whole assembly of the people,
• Matt 27:41–42In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked Him, saying,
• Jer 32:14“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.
• Acts 4:5–6The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,
• Matt 27:1When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.

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