11Then say to them, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: As this jar lies shattered, so I will shatter the people of Judah and Jerusalem beyond all hope of repair. They will bury the bodies here in Topheth, the garbage dump, until there is no more room for them.
Jeremiah 19 delivers one of the most visceral prophetic signs in Scripture. God commands Jeremiah to buy a potter’s earthenware flask, gather the elders and priests, and smash it in the Valley of Ben-hinnom as a symbol of the coming destruction of Jerusalem and Judah. The chapter
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