19:1,2
Having had Jeremiah’s response to the situation, essentially feeling sorry for himself wishing all sorts of ills upon his enemies, we now hear what the Lord says. God has His purposes, and Jeremiah is to get on with doing it. So he is to buy a clay jar from the potter, and go to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, along with some of the elders and priests, and to proclaim the word of the Lord there. Ben Hinnom as a rubbish tip, and a place where children were sacrificed to pagan gods.
19:3,4
Jeremiah is to tell them that God will bring disaster upon the people. This is why Jeremiah was to take them out to Ben Hinnom. It served two purposes. The fact that it was a rubbish tip was a graphic description of what Jerusalem would become, and the fact that it was a place where children were sacrificed was a reminder of why this would happen. The people had forsaken the Lord, instead they worshipped foreign gods, gods who should never be worshipped, and this resulted in the death of innocent children. See how the same thing happens in our own society, with abortion being the most obvious example.
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