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New Living Translation

Jeremiah 18:2

"Go down to the potter's shop, and I will speak to you there."

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

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

1 The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, 2 "Go down to the potter's shop, and I will speak to you there." 3 So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. 4 But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over. 5 Then the Lord gave me this message: 6 "O Israel, can I not do to you as this potter has done to his clay? As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand. 7 If I announce that a certain nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed, 8 but then that nation renounces its evil ways, I will not destroy it as I had planned. 9 And if I announce that I will plant and build up a certain nation or kingdom, 10 but then that nation turns to evil and refuses to obey me, I will not bless it as I said I would.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3396, bc 608

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
"My lord," he said, "if it pleases you, stop here for a while.
Genesis 18:6
So Abraham ran back to the tent and said to Sarah, "Hurry! Get three large measures of your best flour, knead it into dough, and bake some bread."
Genesis 18:7
Then Abraham ran out to the herd and chose a tender calf and gave it to his servant, who quickly prepared it.
Genesis 18:11
Abraham and Sarah were both very old by this time, and Sarah was long past the age of having children.
Genesis 18:16
Then the men got up from their meal and looked out toward Sodom. As they left, Abraham went with them to send them on their way.
Genesis 19:1
That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there, and when he saw them, he stood up to meet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed with his face to the ground.
Genesis 23:7
Then Abraham bowed low before the Hittites
Genesis 32:24
This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break.
Genesis 43:26
When Joseph came home, they gave him the gifts they had brought him, then bowed low to the ground before him.
Genesis 43:28
"Yes," they replied. "Our father, your servant, is alive and well." And they bowed low again.

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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