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Jeremiah 18:2
2“Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.”
Jeremiah 18:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words."
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.”
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Go down to the potter’s shop, and I will speak to you there.”
Context of Jeremiah 18:2
1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” 3So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
Read all of Jeremiah 18Jeremiah 18:2 word by word
ק֥וּם וְיָרַדְתָּ֖ בֵּ֣ית הַיּוֹצֵ֑ר וְשָׁ֖מָּה אַשְׁמִֽיעֲךָ֥ אֶת־דְּבָרָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 18:2
- Jeremiah 13:1This is what the Lord said to me: “Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
- Jeremiah 19:1This is what the Lord says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take along some of the elders of the people and of the priests
- Isaiah 20:2at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.
- Ezekiel 4:1“Now, son of man, take a block of clay, put it in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it.
- Ezekiel 5:1“Now, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor to shave your head and your beard. Then take a set of scales and divide up the hair.
- Amos 7:7This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand.
- Hebrews 1:1In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
- Jeremiah 23:22But if they had stood in my council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds.
- Acts 9:6“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
Commentaries on Jeremiah 18:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Go 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 potter; and in reference to every thing here below, he can shape their destinies as he pleases. Again; though while under the providential care of God they may go morally astray, and pervert themselves, yet they can be reclaimed by the almighty and all-wise Operator, and become such…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2House - 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.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-4Jeremiah watched the potter shape a clay jar. The potter then crushed it and began again.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-232. go down--namely, from the high ground on which the temple stood, near which Jeremiah exercised his prophetic office, to the low ground, where some well-known (this is the force of "the") potter had his workshop.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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