9 Bible Verses about Pottery
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Nevertheless, I have waked up one from the North, and he shall come. And another from the East, which shall call upon my name, and shall come to the princes, as the Potter to his clay, and as the Potter treadeth down the mire.
And when David was come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash out of Rabbah, the city of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel out of Lodebar and Barzillai the Gileadite out of Rogelim, brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels: and also corn, barley, flour and parched corn, beans and rice, honey, butter, sheep and cheese of kine - for David, and all the people that were with him, to eat. For they supposed that the people should be hungry, fainty, and thirsty in the wilderness.
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the kindreds of the households of them that wrought bysse in the house of Ashbea. And Jokim and the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, which were inhabited in Moab, but returned to Lehem and to Debarim-Aikim. These were potters and dwelt among trees and hedges and were in the king's work and dwelt even there.
Doubtless, your destruction is, in reputation, as the potter's clay. And doth the work say of him that made it, "He made me not?" And doth an earthen vessel say of the potter, "He understandeth not?"
Woe be unto him that chideth with his maker, the potsherd with the potter. Sayeth the clay to the potter, "What makest thou?" or "Thy work serveth for nothing?"
But now O LORD, thou father of ours: we are the clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the work of thy hands.
This is another communication that God had with Jeremiah, saying, "Arise, and go down into the Potter's house, and there shall I tell thee more of my mind." Now when I came to the Potter's house, I found him making his work upon a wheel.read more.
The vessel that the Potter made of clay, brake among his hands: So he began anew, and made another vessel, according to his mind. Then said the LORD thus unto me, "May not I do with you, as this Potter doth, O ye house of Israel, sayeth the LORD? Behold, ye house of Israel: ye are in my hand, even as the clay in the Potter's hand. When I take in hand to root out, to destroy, or to waste away any people or kingdom; if that people against whom I have thus devised convert from their wickedness: Immediately, I repent of the plague, that I devised to bring upon them. Again. When I take in hand, to build, or to plant a people or a kingdom: if the same people do evil before me, and hear not my voice: Immediately, I repent of the good, that I devised to do for them.
Moreover, thus said the LORD unto Jeremiah, "Go thy way, and buy thee an earthen pitcher, and bring forth the Senators, and the chief priests
Thou wilt say then unto me, "Why then blameth he us yet? For who can resist his will?" But O man what art thou, which disputest with God? Shall the work say to the workman, "Why hast thou made me on this fashion?" Hath not the potter power over the clay, even of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
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Pottery » Figurative
But now O LORD, thou father of ours: we are the clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the work of thy hands.
Hath not the potter power over the clay, even of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Pottery » Vessels made of
Now when I came to the Potter's house, I found him making his work upon a wheel. The vessel that the Potter made of clay, brake among his hands: So he began anew, and made another vessel, according to his mind.
Pottery » Clay prepared for, by treading
Nevertheless, I have waked up one from the North, and he shall come. And another from the East, which shall call upon my name, and shall come to the princes, as the Potter to his clay, and as the Potter treadeth down the mire.
Pottery » Figurative » Of weakness, in the idol in nebuchadnezzars vision
Whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of earth and part of iron: that is a divided kingdom, which nevertheless shall have some of the iron ground mixed with it, forsomuch as thou hast seen the iron mixed with the clay.