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Christian Standard Bible ®

Jeremiah 18:2

“Go down at once to the potter’s house; there I will reveal my words to you.”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Arts and Crafts;   Potters;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Man;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Potter;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Craft workers;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Clay;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aceldama;   Clay;   Zechariah, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Commerce;   Economic Life;   Evil;   Jeremiah;   Occupations and Professions in the Bible;   Oracles;   Vessels and Utensils;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hosea;   Potter, Pottery;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Akeldama;   Judas Iscariot (2);   Potter;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Handicraft;   Potter;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Handicraft;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Akeldama;   Potter;   Prophecy;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aceldama;   Clay;   Judas Iscariot;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.
King James Version
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
English Standard Version
"Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words."
New American Standard Bible
"Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will announce My words to you."
New Century Version
"Go down to the potter's house, and I will give you my message there."
Amplified Bible
"Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will make you hear My words."
World English Bible
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Arise, and go downe into the potters house, and there shall I shewe thee my words.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will make you hear My words."
Berean Standard Bible
"Go down at once to the potter's house, and there I will reveal My message to you."
Contemporary English Version
"Go to the pottery shop, and when you get there, I will tell you what to say to the people."
Complete Jewish Bible
"Get up, and go down to the potter's house; there I will tell you more."
Darby Translation
Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Jeremiah, go down to the potter's house. I will give you my message there."
George Lamsa Translation
Arise and go down to the potters house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.
Good News Translation
"Go down to the potter's house, where I will give you my message."
Lexham English Bible
"Stand up and go down to the house of the potter, and there I will let you hear my words."
Literal Translation
Rise up and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear My Words.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Arise, and go downe in to the Potters house, and there shall I tell the more off my mynde.
American Standard Version
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
Bible in Basic English
Up! go down to the potter's house, and there I will let my words come to your ears.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear My words.'
King James Version (1611)
Arise and go downe to the potters house, & there I will cause thee to heare my words.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Arise, and go downe into the potters house, & there shal I tell thee more of my mynde,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Jeremias, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there thou shalt hear my words.
English Revised Version
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide, Rise thou, and go doun in to the hous of a pottere, and there thou schalt here my wordis.
Update Bible Version
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.
Webster's Bible Translation
Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
New English Translation
"Go down at once to the potter's house. I will speak to you further there."
New King James Version
"Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear My words."
New Living Translation
"Go down to the potter's shop, and I will speak to you there."
New Life Bible
"Go down to the pot-maker's house, and there I will let you hear My words."
New Revised Standard
"Come, go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Arise and go down to the house of the potter, - and, there, will I cause thee to hear my words.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise, and go down into the potter’s house, and there thou shalt hear my words.
Revised Standard Version
"Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words."
Young's Literal Translation
Rise, and thou hast gone down [to] the potter's house, and there I cause thee to hear My words;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will announce My words to you."

Contextual Overview

1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2“Go down at once to the potter’s house; there I will reveal my words to you.” 3So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, working away at the wheel. 4But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter’s hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do. 5The word of the Lord came to me: 6“House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay?”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. 7At one moment I might announce concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will uproot, tear down, and destroy it. 8However, if that nation about which I have made the announcement turns from its evil, I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to do to it. 9At another time I might announce concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it. 10However, if it does what is evil in my sight by not listening to me, I will relent concerning the good I had said I would do to it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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and go: Jeremiah 13:1, Jeremiah 19:1, Jeremiah 19:2, Isaiah 20:2, Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 5:1, Amos 7:7, Hebrews 1:1

cause: Jeremiah 23:22, Acts 9:6

Reciprocal: Isaiah 64:8 - are the clay Jeremiah 27:2 - put Jeremiah 43:9 - great Ezekiel 12:3 - prepare

Cross-References

Genesis 18:3
and said, “My lord, if I have found favor with you, please do not go on past your servant.
Genesis 18:6
So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Knead three measures of fine flour and make bread.”
Genesis 18:7
Abraham ran to the herd and got a tender, choice calf. He gave it to a young man, who hurried to prepare it.
Genesis 18:11
Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
Genesis 18:16
The men got up from there and looked out over Sodom, and Abraham was walking with them to see them off.
Genesis 19:1
The two angels entered Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in Sodom’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them. He bowed with his face to the ground
Genesis 23:7
Then Abraham rose and bowed down to the Hethites, the people of the land.
Genesis 32:24
Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
Genesis 43:26
When Joseph came home, they brought him the gift they had carried into the house, and they bowed to the ground before him.
Genesis 43:28
They answered, “Your servant our father is well. He is still alive.” And they knelt low and paid homage to him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Arise, and go down to the potter's house,.... Which, no doubt, was well known to the prophet; but where it was is not certain. Some think Jeremiah was in the temple, and this house was beneath it, and therefore he is bid to go down to it; but of this there is no certainty, nor even probability: it is most likely that this house was without the city, perhaps near the potter's field, Matthew 27:10; and which lying low, he is ordered to go down to it:

and there I will cause thee to hear my words; there the Lord would tell him what he had further to say to him, and what he should say to the people; and where by lively representations, by sensible objects before him, he would cause him to understand more clearly what he said and designed to do: as God sometimes represented things to the minds of the prophets in dreams and visions, setting before them mental objects, and raising in their minds ideas of things; so sometimes he represented things to them by real visible objects, and, by similes taken from thence, conveyed unto them a clear and distinct knowledge of his mind and will, and they to the people; which was the case here.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

House - i. e., workshop. The clay-field where the potters exercised their craft lay to the south of Jerusalem just beyond the valley of Hinnom. Compare Zechariah 11:13; Matthew 27:10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 18:2. Go down to the potter's house — By this similitude God shows the absolute state of dependence on himself in which he has placed mankind. They are as clay in the hands of the potter; and in reference to every thing here below, he can shape their destinies as he pleases. Again; though while under the providential care of God they may go morally astray, and pervert themselves, yet they can be reclaimed by the almighty and all-wise Operator, and become such vessels as seemeth good for him to make. In considering this parable we must take heed that in running parallels we do not destroy the free agency of man, nor disgrace the goodness and supremacy of God.


 
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