Jeremiah 18:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. ”

• Jeremiah 18:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  So are ye in mine hand - When a vessel was ruined, the potter did not throw it away, but crushed it together, dashed it back upon the wheel, and began his work afresh, until the clay had taken th...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Jeremiah's Thirteenth Prophecy (see book comments for Jeremiah). house of Israel. See note on Jeremiah 2:4 . saith the LORD . [is] Jehovah's oracle, Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos....

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Now, in the application, we must notice how things correspond: As the clay is at the will and under the power of the potter, so men are at the will of God: God then is compared to the potter. T...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1058 THE POTTER’S POWER OVER THE CLAY Jeremiah 18:6 . O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. Cannot I do with you as this potter...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. O house of Israel, cannot I do...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-17. Figure of the potter's clay.

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Cannot I do with you as this potter? — The question implies a theory of the universe, which is neither (as some have thought) one of absolute fatalism, crushing man’s freedom, nor, on the other han...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE POTTER AND THE CLAY ‘As the clay is in the potter’s hand.’ Jeremiah 18:6 I. Disheartened with his fruitless attempts to bring his people to repentance, Jeremiah was bidden to watch the...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord ,.... Make, and mar, and remake at pleasure? certainly he could. God is a sovereign Being, and has a sovereign and uncontrollab...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay [is] in the potter's hand, so [are] ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. Ver. 6. O house of Israel, canno...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Cannot I do with you as this potter? Have I not as absolute an authority and power over you? Nay, God has an infinitely clearer title to dominion over us than the potter has over the clay, for the...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Sovereign Prerogative of God; Divine Goodness and Equity. B. C. 600.       1 The word whic...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  God now expoundeth to the prophet his design in bidding him go to the potter's house, it was to instruct or confirm him in the power that he had over his creatures. For, saith he, as is the clay to t...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Parable of the Potter

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 4:23 ; Isaiah 64:8 ; Jeremiah 18:4 ; Matthew 20:15 ; Romans 11:34

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• Jeremiah 18:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Cannot I do — That God hath an absolute sovereign power to do what he pleases with the work of his hands: but he acts as a just judge, rendering to every man according to his works.

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