Jeremiah 18:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

Jeremiah 18:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 15:14
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Jonah 1:3
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.
Acts 26:19
Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:

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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. 3)

3. wheels--literally, “on both stones.” The potter’s horizontal lathe consisted of two round plates, the lower one larger, the upper smaller; of stone originally, but afterwards of wood. On the upper the potter moulded the clay into what shapes he pleased. They are found represented in Egyptian remains. In Ex 1:16 alone is the Hebrew word found elsewhere, but in a different sense.