Tree of Life Version
Jeremiah 18:2
2“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.”
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.
- New International Version (NIV)“Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.”
- 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.”
Context of Jeremiah 18:2
1The word came to Jeremiah from Adonai, saying: “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.” 3So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was making a work on the wheels. 4Whenever the pot that he was making from the clay became flawed in the hand of the potter, he remade it into another pot, as it pleased the potter to make.
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 13:1Thus Adonai said to me: “Go, and buy yourself a linen waistband and put it around your waist, and do not put it in water.”
- Jeremiah 19:1Thus said Adonai: “Go, buy a potter’s clay jar, take some elders of the people, some elders of the kohanim,
- Isaiah 20:2at that time Adonai spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your loins and your sandals from your feet.” So he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
- Ezekiel 4:1“Now you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you. Engrave on it a city, Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 5:1“Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor to shave your head and your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.
- Amos 7:7This is what He has revealed to me: Behold, my Lord was standing by a vertical wall, and in His hand was a plumb line.
- Hebrews 1:1At many times and in many ways, God spoke long ago to the fathers through the prophets.
- Jeremiah 23:22If they have stood in My council, then they would have announced My words to My people, and turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.”
- Acts 9:6But 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
In the dictionaries
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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