Jeremiah 18:1-4

The Potter and the Clay

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 "Arise, and go down to q the potter's house, and there I will let you hear my words." 3 So I went down to r the potter's house, and there he was working at his wheel. 4 And the vessel he was making of clay was s spoiled in the potter's hand, and t he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

  1. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:1
    Thus says the Lord, "Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.
    1 Chronicles 4:23
    These were the potters who were inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the king's service.
    Zechariah 11:13
    Then the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter" - the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter.
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 19:1
    Thus says the Lord, "Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.
    1 Chronicles 4:23
    These were the potters who were inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the king's service.
    Zechariah 11:13
    Then the Lord said to me, "Throw it to the potter" - the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter.
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 13:7
    Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.
  4. Cross References
    Romans 9:21
    Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
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