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Verse Jeremiah 18:13. _THE VIRGIN OF ISRAEL_] Instead of ישראל
_Yisrael, three_ of _Kennicott's_ and _De Rossi's_ MSS., with the
Alexandrian copy of the _Septuagint_, have ירושלם _Yerushalem,
Jerusale...
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The contrast between the chaste retirement of a virgin and Judah’s
eagerness after idolatry, serves to heighten the horror at her
conduct....
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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 commanded to go...
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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...
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HEATHEN. nations....
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_Ask ye now among the nations_ Cp. ch. Jeremiah 2:10 f., Jeremiah
5:30.
_the virgin of Israel_ The people collectively (see on Jeremiah 4:11),
tended with the utmost care by the Almighty, have in spi...
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D. The Accusation Against the Nation Jeremiah 18:13-15
TRANSLATION
(13) Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask now among the nations who has
heard such things. An exceedingly horrible thing has the virgi...
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Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath
heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible
thing.
ASK YE NOW AMONG THE PAGAN, WHO HATH HEARD SUCH THING...
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1-17. Figure of the potter's clay....
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ASK YE NOW AMONG THE HEATHEN. — The appeal of Jeremiah 2:10 is
renewed. Judah had not been true, even as heathen nations were true,
to its inherited faith and worship. The virgin daughter of Israel
(I...
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לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה שַֽׁאֲלוּ
־נָא֙ בַּ † גֹּויִ֔ם מִ֥י שָׁמַ֖ע כָּ
אֵ֑לֶּה שַֽׁעֲרֻרִת֙...
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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 be...
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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...
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_Virgin. The disorders of Israel are thus enhanced. (Calmet)_...
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What a striking expostulation is in the opening of these verses? The
Lord sends his people to ask of the heathen, among whom it was never
known, of such apostasy from their dunghill gods, as Israel ma...
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God shews here that the Jews were become wholly irreclaimable, for
they arrived at the highest pitch of impiety, when they were so daring
as to reject the salvation offered to them; for what had the P...
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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...
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THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... This being the case of the people
of the Jews, and they so resolutely bent on their own ways:
ASK YE AMONG THE HEATHEN; inquire among the nations of the world, the...
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Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath
heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible
thing.
Ver. 13. _Therefore thus saith the Lord._] God himself s...
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_Ask ye now among the heathen_ Such an apostacy as you are guilty of
(see Jer 18:15) is not to be paralleled among the heathen. Compare
Jeremiah 2:10. _Who hath heard such things_ When did people ever...
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THE PARABLE FURTHER APPLIED...
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11-17 Sinners call it liberty to live at large; whereas for a man to
be a slave to his lusts, is the very worst slavery. They forsook God
for idols. When men are parched with heat, and meet with cooli...
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God was moved at this desperate obstinacy and hardness of this
people's hearts, he appeals to the world whether ever any heathens
behaved themselves so towards their idols, which were no gods, as this...
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Jeremiah 18:13 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 Ask H7592 (H8798) Gentiles
H1471 heard H8085 (H8804) virgin H1330 Israel H3478 done H6213 (H8804)
very H3966 thing H8186
Ask - Jeremiah 2:10-13
who -...
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BECAUSE OF THEIR REFUSAL TO RESPOND TO HIS ‘SHAPING' HE WILL NOW
‘SHAPE' EVIL AGAINST THEM UNLESS THEY NOW REPENT. HIS OFFER BEING
TURNED DOWN GOD CALLS ON THE NATIONS TO BE ASTONISHED WITNESSES OF
TH...
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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...
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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...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 18:13 WHO HAS HEARD? Judah’s covenant
breaking is unprecedented. See Jeremiah 2:10 for a similar question.
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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...
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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...
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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 hous...
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1 Corinthians 5:1; 1 Samuel 4:7; Hosea 6:10; Isaiah 36:22; Isaiah
66:8; Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 2:10; Jeremiah 2:13; Jeremiah 23:14;...