Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
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Gill's Exposition
And the vessel that he made of clay,.... Which is the matter the vessel is made of:
was marred in the hand of the potter; while he was working it; either it fell, as the Septuagint version renders…
Barnes' Notes
The wheels - literally, “the two wheels.” The lower one was worked by the feet to give motion to the upper one, which was a flat disc or plate of wood, on which the potter laid the clay, and moulded…
The prophet is here sent to the potter's house (he knew where to find it), not to preach a sermon as before to the gates of Jerusalem, but to prepare a sermon, or rather to receive it ready prepared.…
Cambridge Bible
the potter's house The likening (as in Jer 18:18) of man to the clay and God to the potter was familiar. See on Jer 18:18. The trade was a very early one. Thomson (The Land and the Book, p. 520) thus…