In Jeremiah 18 the special lesson was the power of God to alter at any moment the destinies of a people. Here, on the other hand, it is taught that the time may come when the only alteration must take the form of a breaking or overthrow.
1-13. Figure of the broken vessel.
CHAPTER XIX _By the significant type of breaking a potter's vessel, Jeremiah_ _is directed to predict the utter desolation of Judah and_ _Jerusalem_, 1-15. _The prophets taught frequently by_ symb...
GET (I. E., PURCHASE) A POTTER’S EARTHEN BOTTLE - The “bottle” was a flask with a long neck, and took its name from the noise made by liquids in running out. THE ANCIENTS - These “elders” were the reg...
CHAPTER 19 The Broken Bottle _ 1. The broken bottle and the message (Jeremiah 19:1) _ 2. The fate announced in the court of the Lord's house (Jeremiah 19:14) Jeremiah 19:1. He was to get
JEREMIAH 19:1 TO JEREMIAH 20:6. THE EARTHENWARE FLASK; JEREMIAH IN THE STOCKS. This section seems to be editorially grouped with the last because of the further reference to pottery; the original prop...
SAITH THE LORD. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "Jehovah said unto me". THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. BOTTLE. pitcher. Often seen hanging...
_buy a potter's earthen bottle_ The point in ch. 18 (the potter's clay) was the power of God to alter the destinies of a people at any moment, just as the potter's work (Jeremiah 19:4) was made "again...
GO, AND GET A POTTER'S EARTHEN BOTTLE— The meaning of this significative emblem is fully explained in the subsequent verses; and indeed the whole chapter requires very little comment....
III. THE BROKEN VESSEL Jeremiah 19:1 to Jeremiah 20:6 In the parable of the potter and his clay the point was the possibility of remaking a vessel which has not met with approval; in chapter 19 the em...
Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; Referred, by Maurer, etc., to the beginning of Zedekiah's reig...
XIX. (1) AND GET A POTTER’S EARTHEN BOTTLE. — The word for “get_”_ involves _buying_ as the process. The similitude — one might better call it, the parable dramatised — represents the darker side of t...
כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הָלֹ֛וךְ וְ קָנִ֥יתָ בַק
CHAPTER XII THE BROKEN VESSEL - A SYMBOL OF JUDGMENT Jeremiah 19:1 THE result of his former address, founded upon the procedure of the potter, had only been to bring out into clearer distinctness t...
WIDESPREAD CORRUPTION Jeremiah 5:1-6; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 20:1-18; Jeremiah 21:1-14; Jeremiah 22:1-30; Jeremiah 23:1-40; Jeremiah 24:1-10; Jeremiah 25:1-38;...
Jeremiah was now commissioned to go forth into the valley of the son of Hinnon, taking with him a potter's vessel. His message there was of judgment. Because the people had forsaken Jehovah, and had s...
_Priests. They were to furnish the vessel, and accompany the prophets, ver. 10. Septuagint, "and thou shalt take some of," &c. (Haydock) --- Words and actions together instruct most powerfully. (St. J...
CONTENTS The Prophet's sermon is here delivered, under the similitude of a Potter's bottle, by way of representing the broken state of the Jews....
There are several weighty circumstances which strike our m in d, on reading this sermon of Jeremiah. Let the Reader observe in the first place, the Persons whom the Prophet was to gather to hear it: t...
We see that the Prophet was sent by God to shew the people that there was no firmness in that state of which hypocrites boasted; for God, who had favored the people of Israel with singular benefits, d...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20. Chapter s 19 and 20 shew us the judgment of Jerusalem announced in terms that require little explanation; and we have in chapter 20 a sample of the...
THUS SAITH THE LORD, GO AND GET A POTTER'S EARTHEN BOTTLE,.... From the potter's house, where he had lately been; and where he had been shown, in an emblematic way, what God would do in a short time w...
Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; Ver. 1. _Thus saith the Lord._] By the former type of a potter...
_Go and get a potter's earthen bottle_ The meaning of this emblem is fully explained in the subsequent verses; and indeed the whole chapter requires little more comment than a reference to the passage...
Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, a pitcher with a long neck, AND TAKE OF THE ANCIENTS OF THE PEOPLE, the elders of their chief council, AND OF THE ANCIENTS OF THE PRIESTS, Cf...
THE PARABOLIC ACTION AND ITS EXPLANATION...
1-9 The prophet must give notice of ruin coming upon Judah and Jerusalem. Both rulers and ruled must attend to it. That place which holiness made the joy of the whole earth, sin made the reproach and...
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 19 Under the type of breaking a potter's vessel is foreshown the desolation of the Jews for their sins committed in the valley of Hinnom and elsewhere. Critics dispute the figure and...
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THE LESSON OF THE POTTER'S VESSEL (JEREMIAH 19:1). Jeremiah was now called on to perform a prophetic ritual through which he would vividly depict what was to happen to Judah and Jerusalem. This too wa...
CONTENTS: Sign of potter's house, concluded. Coming calamities CHARACTERS: Jeremiah, Kings of Judah. CONCLUSION: Let men great and small know that the Lord of Hosts is able to do what He threatens,...
Jeremiah 19:1. _Take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests,_ that aged men might have weight in reforming the bloody worship of the idolaters. Jeremiah 19:2. _The valley of...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 19:1 GO, BUY. The third symbolic act (see Jeremiah 13:1; Jere
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—See notes to preceding chapter for _Chronology_, &c. _Vide_ also Introductory Notes to chap. 20. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 19:2. “_Valley of the Son of Hinnom_,...
EXPOSITION With this chapter, Jeremiah 19:1 of the next ought undoubtedly to be connected to complete the narrative. Jeremiah here comes before us performing another symbolical action. By breaking a p...
Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle (Jeremiah 19:1), Take one of the bottles that the potter has made. Clay bottles. and take the old men of the people, and of the priests; And...
1 Chronicles 24:4; 2 Corinthians 4:7; Acts 4:5; Acts 4:6; Ezekiel 8:11