Today is the twelfth day of October. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today.

Doing what we do every day, taking the next step forward together. And our next step will lead us back into the book of Jeremiah.

Reading from the new living translation this week, Jeremiah chapter 19, 20, and 21.

This is what the Lord said to me.

Go in by a clay jar, then ask some of the leaders of the people and of the priests to follow you.

Go out through the gate of broken pots to the garbage dump in the valley of Beninom and give them this message.

Say to them,

Listen to this message from the Lord, you kings of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem.

This is what the Lord of heaven's armies, the God of Israel says.

I will bring a terrible disaster on this place and the ears of those who hear about it will ring.

For Israel has forsaken me and turned this valley into a place of wickedness.

The people burn incense to foreign gods.

Idols never before acknowledged by this generation, by their ancestors or by the kings of Judah.

And they have filled this place with the blood of innocent children.

They have built pagan shrines to bail, and there they burn their sons as sacrifices to bail.

I have never commanded such a horrible deed.

It never even crossed my mind to command such a thing.

So beware, for the time is coming, says the Lord.

When this garbage dump will no longer be called topeth, or the valley of Beninom, but the valley of slaughter.

For I will upset the careful plans of Judah and Jerusalem.

I will allow the people to be slaughtered by invading armies,

and I will leave their dead bodies as food for the vultures and wild animals.

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