Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 18:13
The contrast between the chaste retirement of a virgin and Judah’s eagerness after idolatry, serves to heighten the horror at her conduct.
The contrast between the chaste retirement of a virgin and Judah’s eagerness after idolatry, serves to heighten the horror at her conduct.
Verse Jeremiah 18:13. _THE VIRGIN OF ISRAEL_] Instead of ישראל _Yisrael, three_ of _Kennicott's_ and _De Rossi's_ MSS., with the Alexandrian copy of the _Septuagint_, have ירושלם _Yerushalem, Jerusale...
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
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...
HEATHEN. nations....
_Ask ye now among the nations_ Cp. ch. Jeremiah 2:10 f., Jeremiah 5:30. _the virgin of Israel_ The people collectively (see on Jeremiah 4:11), tended with the utmost care by the Almighty, have in spit...
D. The Accusation Against the Nation Jeremiah 18:13-15 TRANSLATION (13) Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask now among the nations who has heard such things. An exceedingly horrible thing has the virgin...
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. ASK YE NOW AMONG THE PAGAN, WHO HATH HEARD SUCH THINGS...
1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
ASK YE NOW AMONG THE HEATHEN. — The appeal of Jeremiah 2:10 is renewed. Judah had not been true, even as heathen nations were true, to its inherited faith and worship. The virgin daughter of Israel (I...
לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה שַֽׁאֲלוּ ־נָא֙ ב
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...
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...
_Virgin. The disorders of Israel are thus enhanced. (Calmet)_...
What a striking expostulation is in the opening of these verses? The Lord sends his people to ask of the heathen, among whom it was never known, of such apostasy from their dunghill gods, as Israel ma...
God shews here that the Jews were become wholly irreclaimable, for they arrived at the highest pitch of impiety, when they were so daring as to reject the salvation offered to them; for what had the P...
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...
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... This being the case of the people of the Jews, and they so resolutely bent on their own ways: ASK YE AMONG THE HEATHEN; inquire among the nations of the world, the...
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. Ver. 13. _Therefore thus saith the Lord._] God himself s...
_Ask ye now among the heathen_ Such an apostacy as you are guilty of (see Jer 18:15) is not to be paralleled among the heathen. Compare Jeremiah 2:10. _Who hath heard such things_ When did people ever...
THE PARABLE FURTHER APPLIED...
Therefore, thus saith the Lord, in expressing His horror over such behavior as here exhibited by Judah, ASK YE NOW AMONG THE HEATHEN WHO HATH HEARD SUCH THINGS. THE VIRGIN OF ISRAEL, the Lord's betrot...
11-17 Sinners call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to be a slave to his lusts, is the very worst slavery. They forsook God for idols. When men are parched with heat, and meet with cool...
God was moved at this desperate obstinacy and hardness of this people's hearts, he appeals to the world whether ever any heathens behaved themselves so towards their idols, which were no gods, as this...
Jeremiah 18:13 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 Ask H7592 (H8798) Gentiles H1471 heard H8085 (H8804) virgin...
BECAUSE OF THEIR REFUSAL TO RESPOND TO HIS ‘SHAPING' HE WILL NOW ‘SHAPE' EVIL AGAINST THEM UNLESS THEY NOW REPENT. HIS OFFER BEING TURNED DOWN GOD CALLS ON THE NATIONS TO BE ASTONISHED WITNESSES OF TH...
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 18:13 WHO HAS HEARD? Judah’s covenant breaking is unprecedented. See Jeremiah 2:10 for a similar question....
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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 5:1; 1 Samuel 4:7; Hosea 6:10; Isaiah 36:22; Isaiah 66:8