Jeremiah 18:3
So I went down to the potter’s house and found him working at his wheel.
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- Jonah 1:3 : 3 Instead, Jonah immediately headed off to Tarshish to escape from the commission of the LORD. He traveled to Joppa and found a merchant ship heading to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard it to go with them to Tarshish far away from the LORD.
- John 15:14 : 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
- Acts 26:19 : 19 “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
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4Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.
5Then the LORD’s message came to me,
6“I, the LORD, say:‘O nation of Israel, can I not deal with you as this potter deals with the clay? In my hands, you, O nation of Israel, are just like the clay in this potter’s hand.’
7There are times, Jeremiah, when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom.
- Jer 18:1-22 verses88%
1An Object Lesson from the Making of Pottery The LORD said to Jeremiah:
2“Go down at once to the potter’s house. I will speak to you further there.”
- Rom 9:20-212 verses75%
20But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”
21Has the potter no right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special use and another for ordinary use?
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16Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“He doesn’t understand”?
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9The Lord Gives a Warning One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter,“What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”
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1An Object Lesson from a Broken Clay Jar The LORD told Jeremiah,“Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take with you some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders of the priests.
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13The LORD then said to me,“Throw to the potter that exorbitant sum at which they valued me!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the temple of the LORD.
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8Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor.
- Jer 13:7-82 verses69%
7So I went to Perath and dug up the shorts from the place where I had buried them. I found that they were ruined; they were good for nothing.
8Then the LORD’s message came to me,
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14It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”
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22Isolated and Silenced The hand of the LORD rested on me there, and he said to me,“Get up, go out to the valley, and I will speak with you there.”
23So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the LORD was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I threw myself face down.
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23They were the potters who lived in Netaim and Gederah; they lived there and worked for the king.
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16Look, I create the craftsman, who fans the coals into a fire and forges a weapon. I create the destroyer so he might devastate.
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11So now, tell the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem this: The LORD says,‘I am preparing to bring disaster on you! I am making plans to punish you. So, every one of you, stop the evil things you have been doing. Correct the way you have been living and do what is right.’
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3Recite a proverb to this rebellious house and say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Set on the pot, set it on, pour water in it too;
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8Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.
9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
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6Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
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33The wheels were constructed like chariot wheels; their crossbars, rims, spokes, and hubs were made of cast metal.
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14Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
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11Tell them the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done. I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel which is broken beyond repair. The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’
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1Individual Retribution The LORD’s message came to me:
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19A craftsman casts an idol; a metalsmith overlays it with gold and forges silver chains for it.
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2ב(Bet) The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold– Alas!– but now they are treated like broken clay pots, made by a potter.
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3Then the LORD’s message came to me again,
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12Then the LORD said,“You have observed correctly. This means I am watching to make sure my threats are carried out.”
13The LORD’s message came to me a second time,“What do you see?” I answered,“I see a pot of boiling water; it is tipped away from the north.”
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16In this way I will pass sentence on the people of Jerusalem and Judah because of all their wickedness. For they rejected me and offered sacrifices to other gods, worshiping what they made with their own hands.”
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14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.
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7He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.
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14Then Jeremiah left Topheth where the LORD had sent him to give that prophecy. He went to the LORD’s temple and stood in its courtyard and called out to all the people.
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8The LORD’s message came to me in the morning:
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21When the living beings moved, the wheels moved, and when they stopped moving, the wheels stopped. When they rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up from the ground; the wheels rose up beside them because the spirit of the living being was in the wheel.
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20Next the LORD showed me four blacksmiths.
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25I have stirred up one out of the north and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. He steps on rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.
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1The Valley of Dry Bones The hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and placed me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.
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1The LORD told me,“Go down to the palace of the king of Judah. Give him a message from me there.
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8Go up to the hill country and bring back timber to build the temple. Then I will be pleased and honored,’ says the LORD.
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18When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them,“What are you doing?”
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2“I, the LORD, do these things. I, the LORD, form the plan to bring them about. I am known as the LORD. I say to you,
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21Indeed, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel has already spoken about the valuable articles that are left in the LORD’s temple, in the royal palace of Judah, and in Jerusalem.