Jeremiah 18:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.a ”

Jeremiah 18:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The wheels - literally, “the two wheels.” The lower one was worked by the feet to give motion to the upper one, which was a flat disc or plate of wood, on which the potter laid the clay, and moul...
Jeremiah 18:3 - 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 18:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. He wrought a work on the wheels - אל האבנים al haabnayim, upon the stones, the potter's wheel being usually made...
Jeremiah 18:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

On the wheels— Upon the stones. This is the literal signification of עלאּהאבנים al haabnaiim, which the LXX. also render επι των λιθων. There can be no doubt that the machine is intended, on wh...
Jeremiah 18:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. Wheels, х haa'aabªnaayim ( H70 )] - literally, 'on both stones.' The potter's horizontal lathe consis...
Jeremiah 18:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-17. Figure of the potter's clay.
Jeremiah 18:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

He wrought a work on the wheels. — Literally, the two wheels. The nature of the work is described more graphically in Ecclus. xxxviii. 29, 30. The potter sat moving one horizontal wheel with his...
Jeremiah 18:3 - 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 18:3 - 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 18:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! Was not our nature marred by sin after it came out of the hands of our Almighty Potter? Did the Lord throw it away? No! He new made it in Christ Jesus. Oh! what numberless, sweet instructions...
Jeremiah 18:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then I went down to the potter's house ,.... He did as the Lord commanded him; he was obedient to the divine will; he went to hear what the Lord had to say to him there, and to observe such things,...
Jeremiah 18:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. Ver. 3. Then I went down to the potter's house.] a God's commands must be obeyed without sciscitation. Jeremi...
Jeremiah 18:3 - 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 18:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sovereign Prerogative of God; Divine Goodness and Equity. B. C. 600. 1 The word whic...
Jeremiah 18:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah yields a present and free obedience to the command of God, though he did not know God's meaning in it, and findeth the potter at work upon wheels or frames which he formed his clay upon,...
Jeremiah 18:3 - 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 18:3 - 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 18:3 - 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 18:3 - 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 18:3 - 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 18:3 - 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 18:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Parable of the Potter
Jeremiah 18:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 26:19 ; John 15:14 ; Jonah 1:3

Jeremiah 18:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 18:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 18:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 18:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 18:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 18:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 18:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 18:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 18:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 18:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 18:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 18:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 18:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 18:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 18:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 18:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 18:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 18:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge