3Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
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Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
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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 sile…
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