Jeremiah 18:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

Jeremiah 18:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 1:1
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Acts 9:6
And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Jeremiah 19:1-2
Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; …
Jeremiah 13:1
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
Ezekiel 4:1-5
Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

The prophet is here sent to the potter’s house (he knew where to find it), not to preach a sermon as before to the gates of Jerusalem, but to prepare a sermon, or rather to receive it ready prepared. Those needed not to study their sermons that had them, as he had this, by immediate inspiration. “ Go to the potter’s house, and observe how he manages his work, and there I will cause thee, by silent…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Jr 18:1-23. God, as the Sole Sovereign, Has an Absolute Right to Deal with Nations According to Their Conduct towards Him; Illustrated in a Tangible Form by the Potter’s Moulding of Vessels from Clay. 2. 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 ha…