House - that is, workshop. The clay-field where the potters exercised their craft lay to the south of Jerusalem just beyond the valley of Hi…

The potter’s house. —The place was probably identical with the potter’s field of Zechariah 11:13, the well-known spot whe…

The sum of what is taught here is that, as the Jews gloried in God’s singular favor—which, however, had been conferred on them for a different purp…

Arise, and go down to the potter's house
Which, no doubt, was well known to the prophet; but where it was is not cer…

While Jeremiah observes the potter's work, God darts into his mind two great truths. God has authority, and power, to form and fashion kingdoms and…

1. Here, he shows the obstinacy of the people themselves as if through experience:

• First, because they reject his preaching.