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Verse Jeremiah 18:2. _GO DOWN TO THE POTTER'S HOUSE_] By this
similitude God shows the absolute state of dependence on himself in
which he has placed mankind. They are as clay in the hands of the
pot...
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HOUSE - i. e., workshop. The clay-field where the potters exercised
their craft lay to the south of Jerusalem just beyond the valley of
Hinnom. Compare Zechariah 11:13; Matthew 27:10....
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CHAPTER 18
The Potter and the Clay
_ 1. In the potter's house and the message (Jeremiah 18:1) _
2. The plot against the prophet and his prayer (Jeremiah 18:18)
Jeremiah 18:1. He was comm
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THE POTTER AND THE CLAY. The potter (Jeremiah 18:1) moulding his clay
on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the
connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His contro...
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THE POTTER'S HOUSE. Note the lesson, set to Jeremiah there: that
Jehovah never _mends_ what man has _marred._ He always substitutes
something _new._ The _interpretation_ belongs to "THE HOUSE OF
ISRAE...
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CHAPTER ELEVEN
THE POTTER AND HIS VESSELS
Jeremiah 18:1 to Jeremiah 20:18
Chapter s 18-20 are composed of various types of literature centering
around the common theme of the potter's vessels. The f...
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Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee
to hear my words.
GO DOWN - namely, from the high ground on which the temple stood,
near which Jeremiah exercised his propheti...
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1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
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THE POTTER’S HOUSE. — The place was probably identical with the
“potter’s field” of Zechariah 11:13, the well-known spot where
the workers in that art carried on their business. The traditional
Acelda...
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ק֥וּם וְ יָרַדְתָּ֖ בֵּ֣ית הַ
יֹּוצֵ֑ר וְ
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CHAPTER XI
THE DIVINE POTTER
Jeremiah 18:1
JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the
upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter
sitting at work bef...
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We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of
Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute
supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house o...
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_Potter's. Thus God would shew his dominion over all, Romans ix. 21._...
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It is blessed for every child of God, and much more for all the
Prophets of the Lord, I mean the ministers of the Lord, to sit down in
silent waiting at the feet of Jesus to be prepared for his servic...
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In chapter 18 this principle is fully demonstrated before the people
(Jeremiah 18:1-10). But the people in despair as to God, in the midst
of their boldness in evil and in contempt of His marvellous p...
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ARISE, AND GO DOWN TO THE POTTER'S HOUSE,.... Which, no doubt, was
well known to the prophet; but where it was is not certain. Some think
Jeremiah was in the temple, and this house was beneath it, and...
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Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee
to hear my words.
Ver. 2. Arise, and go down to the potter's house.] Whether the
prophet was to go actually to the potter's house...
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_The word which came to Jeremiah_, &c. We have here the beginning of a
new discourse of Jeremiah, which, if introduced in its proper place,
as we have reason to think it is, was probably also, as well...
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1-10 While Jeremiah looks upon the potter's work, God darts into his
mind two great truths. God has authority, and power, to form and
fashion kingdoms and nations as he pleases. He may dispose of us...
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It is likely there was but one POTTER near the place, or at least that
there was one more noted and eminent than the rest, to whose house the
Lord here sendeth the prophet, intending there further to...
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Jeremiah 18:2 Arise H6965 (H8798) down H3381 (H8804) potters H3335
(H8802) house H1004 hear H8085 ...
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THE LESSON OF THE PATIENT POTTER (JEREMIAH 18:1).
In one of the most beautiful illustrations in the Old Testament YHWH
illustrates His readiness ever to show mercy in the lesson of the
patient potter....
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Jeremiah 18:1
Consider what Jeremiah's business was, and how the potter might help
him in understanding and performing it.
I. Jeremiah sees a man engaged in a task to which he is devoting all
his tho...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the potter's house. Declaration of God's ways of
dealing with nations. Jeremiah's complaint.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Jehovah has incontestable and irresistible abili...
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Jeremiah 18:6. _As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my
hand._ The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the
degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, unde...
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_Go down to the potter’s house._
THE POTTER AND THE CLAY
(with Romans 9:19):--The potter and the clay! Is not that parable the
germ of all that is most oppressive in the “terrible decree” of
Calvinis...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early
in Jehoiakim’s reign (See _Chronological Note_ on Section 19–27 of
previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that messag...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending
to Jeremiah 25:1.) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not
been determined by chronological considerations. T...
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Now in chapter 18:
The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go
down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my
words. Then I went down to the potter's house...
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Acts 9:6; Amos 7:7; Ezekiel 4:1; Hebrews 1:1; Isaiah 20:2;...