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  1. Soft clay vs. finished jug<\/em>. In the previous chapter we encountered the jug, the vessel, when it was still \u201cclay in the hands of the potter,\u201d and it could still be kneaded to become a new object, with a new future. Here, the jug represents a finished vessel that can no longer change or be changed, only broken. That\u2019s the situation of the people – and that\u2019s the future of Judah and Jerusalem.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Living hell<\/em> (<\/span>topheth<\/span><\/i>). The place known as Topheth (which means something like conflagration or hellfire) plays a central role in Jermiah\u2019s prophecy here. It is the scene of the crime, where apparently the cult of human sacrifice in Jerusalem occurred. Topheth becomes also the image of punishment (v. 12), and the physical place where the dead, victims of the destruction, will be buried, because of a lack of space in the city itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Hard to watch<\/em>. Parents harm their own children, in both the description of the crime and of the punishment. In the crime, the sin: \u201cThey have built shrines to Baal, to put their children to the fire as burnt offerings to Baal\u201d (v. 5), and in the punishment, \u201cAnd I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters\u2026 in the siege\u201d (v. 9).<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Place-based prophecy.<\/em> There are actually two prophecies in the chapter: the one in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, and the other in the Temple. The messages are similar – sin will bring destruction. Can one actually say the same things that one says in Valley of Ben-hinnom, at the Temple. 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