Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 19:1

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1. bottle — Hebrew, bakuk, so called from the gurgling sound which it makes when being emptied. ancients —elders. As witnesses of the symbolic action ( Jeremiah 19:10 ; Isaiah 8:1 ; Isaiah 8:2 ), that the Jews might not afterwards plead ignorance of the prophecy. The seventy-two elders, composing the Sanhedrim, or Great Council, were taken partly from "the priests," partly from the other tribes, that is, "the people," the former presiding over spiritual matters, the latter over civil; the seventy-two represented the whole people. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-2" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-jer-19-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/jer-19-1

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological