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Jeremiah 18:1-3
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An Object Lesson from the Making of Pottery

18 The Lord said to Jeremiah:[a] 2 “Go down at once[b] to the potter’s house. I will speak to you further there.”[c] 3 So I went down to the potter’s house and found him working[d] at his wheel.[e]

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  1. Jeremiah 18:1 tn Heb “The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying:” This same formula occurs ten other times in Jeremiah. It has already occurred at 7:1 and 11:1.
  2. Jeremiah 18:2 tn Heb “Get up and go down.” The first verb is not literal but is idiomatic for the initiation of an action. See 13:4, 6 for other occurrences of this idiom.
  3. Jeremiah 18:2 tn Heb “And I will cause you to hear my word there.”
  4. Jeremiah 18:3 tn Heb “And behold he was working.”
  5. Jeremiah 18:3 sn At his wheel (Heb “at the two stones”). The Hebrew expression is very descriptive of the construction of a potter’s wheel, which consisted of two stones joined by a horizontal shaft. The potter rotated the wheel with his feet on the lower wheel and worked the clay with his hands on the upper. For a picture of a potter working at his wheel, see I. Ben-Dor, “Potter’s Wheel,” IDB 3:846. See also the discussion regarding the making of pottery in J. L. Kelso, “Pottery,” IDB 3:846-53.
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