Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Jeremiah 31:40
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Jeremiah31:40
40. valley of ... dead--Tophet, where the bodies of malefactors were cast (Is 30:33), south of the city.
fields ... Kidron--so 2Ki 23:4. Fields in the suburbs reaching as far as Kidron, east of the city.
horse gate--Through it the king's horses were led forth for watering to the brook Kidron (2Ki 11:16; Ne 3:28).
for ever--The city shall not only be spacious, but both "holy to the Lord," that is, freed from all pollutions, and everlasting (Joe 3:17, 20; Re 21:2, 10, 27).
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