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Jeremiah 18:10

JEREMIAH—NOTE ON Jeremiah 18:10 relent of the good. Remove the blessing the people could have received.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 18:10. Jeremiah 18:7....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 18 The Potter and the Clay _ 1. In the potter's house and the message (Jeremiah 18:1) _ 2. The plot against the prophet and his prayer (Jeremiah 18:18) Jeremiah 18:1. He was comm

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE POTTER AND THE CLAY. The potter (Jeremiah 18:1) moulding his clay on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His contro...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. note....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Interpretation for the Prophet Jeremiah 18:5-10 TRANSLATION (5) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (6) Am I not able to do to you as this potter (oracle of the LORD)? Behold, like...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND AT WHAT INSTANT I SHALL SPEAK CONCERNING A NATION, AND CONCERNING A KINGDOM, TO BUILD AND TO PLANT IT;_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (7-10) AT WHAT INSTANT I SHALL SPEAK CONCERNING A NATION... — The words carry the thoughts of the prophet back to those which had been stamped indelibly on his memory when he was first called to his w...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עָשָׂ֤ה _הָ_†_רַע֙_† בְּ עֵינַ֔י לְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XI THE DIVINE POTTER Jeremiah 18:1 JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter sitting at work bef...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house o...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Lord himself explains and applies his type of the Potter. And in Jesus how hath the doctrine been fully proved? Surely the Lord can with infinitely more ease create new hearts in his people, and r...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Now follows the opposite clause, _But if it will do evil before mine eyes, so as not to hear my voice_; that is, when a nation has been planted through my kindness, (for this is required by the contex...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 18 this principle is fully demonstrated before the people (Jeremiah 18:1-10). But the people in despair as to God, in the midst of their boldness in evil and in contempt of His marvellous p...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IF IT DO EVIL IN MY SIGHT,.... What is sinful, contrary to the law and will of God, openly and publicly, in a bold and daring manner: THAT IT OBEY NOT MY VOICE: in my word, and by my prophets, but tu...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them. Ver. 10. _Then will I repent of the good._] I will take away mine own, and...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _If I shall speak concerning a nation to build and to plant_ That is, To advance and establish all the true interests of it; _if it do evil in my sight_, &c. If it lose its piety and virtue, and becom...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PARABLE OF THE POTTER...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    if it do evil in My sight, that It obey not My voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them, the obstinacy and wickedness of such a people depriving it of the blessings...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 While Jeremiah looks upon the potter's work, God darts into his mind two great truths. God has authority, and power, to form and fashion kingdoms and nations as he pleases. He may dispose of us...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SPEAKING, JEREMIAH 18:9, and repenting, Jeremiah 18:10, must be understood in the same sense as in the two former verses. The reason of this is, because in all God's threatenings and promises of this...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 18:10 does H6213 (H8804) evil H7451 sight H5869 obey H8085 (H8800) voice H6963 relent H5162 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE LESSON OF THE PATIENT POTTER (JEREMIAH 18:1). In one of the most beautiful illustrations in the Old Testament YHWH illustrates His readiness ever to show mercy in the lesson of the patient potter....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sign of the potter's house. Declaration of God's ways of dealing with nations. Jeremiah's complaint. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah has incontestable and irresistible abili...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 18:6. _As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand._ The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, unde...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Go down to the potter’s house._ THE POTTER AND THE CLAY (with Romans 9:19):--The potter and the clay! Is not that parable the germ of all that is most oppressive in the “terrible decree” of Calvinis...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early in Jehoiakim’s reign (See _Chronological Note_ on Section 19–27 of previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that messag...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending to Jeremiah 25:1.) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not been determined by chronological considerations. T...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 18: The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. Then I went down to the potter's house...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 13:13; 1 Samuel 15:11; 1 Samuel 15:35; 1 Samuel 2:30;...

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