Jeremiah 18:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. ”

Jeremiah 18:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 .
Jeremiah 18:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Potter and the Clay. The potter ( Jeremiah 18:1-4 ) 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...
Jeremiah 18:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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 IS...
Jeremiah 18:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. Go down to the potter's house - By this similitude God shows the absolute state of dependence on himself in whi...
Jeremiah 18:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 pro...
Jeremiah 18:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-17. Figure of the potter's clay.
Jeremiah 18:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 A...
Jeremiah 18:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XI THE DIVINE POTTER Jeremiah 18:1-23 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...
Jeremiah 18:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Jeremiah 18:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 servi...
Jeremiah 18:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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,...
Jeremiah 18:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 hou...
Jeremiah 18:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Jeremiah 18:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sovereign Prerogative of God; Divine Goodness and Equity. B. C. 600. 1 The word whic...
Jeremiah 18:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Jeremiah 18:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Lesson Of The Patient Potter ( Jeremiah 18:1-10 ). In one of the most beautiful illustrations in the Old Testament YHWH illustrates His readiness ever to show mercy in the lesson of the patien...
Jeremiah 18:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 mes...
Jeremiah 18:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 18:1-6 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 h...
Jeremiah 18:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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, u...
Jeremiah 18:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Go down to the potter’s house. The potter and the clay (with Romans 9:19-24 ):--The potter and the clay! Is not that parable the germ of all that is most oppressive in the “terrible decree” of...
Jeremiah 18:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending to Jeremiah 25:1-24 .) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not been determined by chronological consid...
Jeremiah 18:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Parable of the Potter
Jeremiah 18:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 9:6 ; Amos 7:7 ; Ezekiel 4:1-5 ; Hebrews 1:1 ; Isaiah 20:2 ; Jeremiah 13:1 ; Jeremiah 19:1 ; Jeremiah 19:2 ; Jeremiah 23:22

Jeremiah 18:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 18:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 18:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 18:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 18:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 18:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 18:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 18:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 18:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 18:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 18:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 18:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 18:2 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 18:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 18:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 18:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 18:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 18:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge