Pottery

How Nave’s arranged it

• Clay prepared for, by treadingIsaiah 41:25
• Vessels made ofJeremiah 18:3Jeremiah 18:4
• Place for manufacture of, outside the wall of Jerusalem, bought as a burying ground for poor peopleMatthew 27:7–10
• FIGURATIVEIsaiah 64:8Romans 9:21
• Of weakness, in the idol in Nebuchadnezzars visionDaniel 2:41

The passages, in Bible order (7)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 7 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Isaiah 41:25

   I have raised up one from the north, and he has come— one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.

   ›Commentary on Isaiah 41:252 voices

   “(Verse 25) He stirred up from the north, and he will come from the rising sun: he will call my name, and he will bring magistrates like clay: and like a potter treading the earth. LXX: But I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun; they shall call upon my name. Let the princes come and be like the potter's vessel, and let the potter tread down the clay. Yet he speaks against the idols, and those who did not want to abandon them after the coming of Christ.

   “I have raised up one from the north,....

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2. Isaiah 64:8

   But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.

   ›Commentary on Isaiah 64:82 voices

   “(Verse 8 and following) And now, Lord, you are our father, and we are clay; you are our potter, and all our works are the work of your hands. Do not be exceedingly angry, Lord, and do not remember our iniquity any longer. Look, your people are all of us. The city of your holy ones has become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem is desolate. Our house of sanctification and glory, where our fathers praised you, has become a burning ruin, and all our desirable things have turned to ruins.

   “But now, O Lord, thou art our father,....

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3. Jeremiah 18:3

   So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel.

   ›Commentary on Jeremiah 18:32 voices

   “(Chapter XVIII — Verses 1-6) The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying: Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there you shall hear my words. So I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was working on a wheel (or stones). And the vessel that he was making of clay with his hands was spoiled in his hands; so he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to him to do.

   “Whatever is discerned by the eyes arrives to the judgment and understanding of the soul through every other sense, through hearing, smelling, tasting and touching, but is retained even more so by the mind. Thus, the prophet was commanded to go to the potter's house and there to hear the instructions of the Lord.

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4. Jeremiah 18:4

   But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.

   ›Commentary on Jeremiah 18:42 voices

   “(Chapter XVIII — Verses 1-6) The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying: Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there you shall hear my words. So I went down to the potter's house, and behold, he was working on a wheel (or stones). And the vessel that he was making of clay with his hands was spoiled in his hands; so he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to him to do.

   “Whatever is discerned by the eyes arrives to the judgment and understanding of the soul through every other sense, through hearing, smelling, tasting and touching, but is retained even more so by the mind. Thus, the prophet was commanded to go to the potter's house and there to hear the instructions of the Lord.

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5. Daniel 2:41

   And just as you saw that the feet and toes were made partly of fired clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom, yet some of the strength of iron will be in it—just as you saw the iron mixed with clay.

   ›Commentary on Daniel 2:412 voices

   “But its feet and toes are partly of iron and partly of earthenware, a fact most clearly demonstrated at the present time. For just as there was at the first nothing stronger or hardier than the Roman realm, so also in these last days there is nothing more feeble, since we require the assistance of barbarian tribes both in our civil wars and against foreign nations.

   “And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron,....

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6. Matthew 27:7–10

   After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.

   ›Commentary on Matthew 27:7–102 voices

   “(Vers. 7, 8.) However, with a plan devised, they bought a field from that potter, for the burial of strangers, therefore that field was called Acheldemach, which means the field of blood, to this day. Indeed, they acted with a different intention, that they might leave a lasting monument of their impiety from the purchase of the land. But we, who were strangers to the Law and the prophets, have embraced their corrupt practices for salvation: and we find rest in the price of his blood. But the field is called 'figulus' because our potter is Christ.

   “And they took counsel,....

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7. Romans 9:21

   Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

   ›Commentary on Romans 9:211 voice

   But let us also, according to our strength, turn to the things we have in hand. "Does the thing formed say," he says, "to him who formed it: Why have you made me thus? Or does not the potter have power over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another indeed unto dishonor?"

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