Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
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Gill's Exposition
Thus saith the Lord, go and get a potter's earthen bottle,.... From the potter's house, where he had lately been; and where he had been shown, in an emblematic way, what God would do in a short time…
Barnes' Notes
Get (i. e., purchase) a potter’s earthen bottle - The “bottle” was a flask with a long neck, and took its name from the noise made by liquids in running out. The ancients - These “elders” were the…
The corruption of man having made it necessary that precept should be upon precept, and line upon line (so unapt are we to receive, and so very apt to let slip, the things of God), the grace of God…
Cambridge Bible
buy a potter's earthen bottle The point in ch. 18 (the potter's clay) was the power of God to alter the destinies of a people at any moment, just as the potter's work (Jer 19:19) was made "again…
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