Get (that is, purchase) a potter’s earthen bottle. The “bottle” was a flask with a long neck and took its name from the noise made …

And get a potter’s earthen bottle. —The word for “get ” involves buying as the process. The symbolic ac…

We see that the Prophet was sent by God to show the people that there was no firmness in that state of which hypocrites boasted. For God, who had f…

Thus says the Lord, go and get a potter's earthen bottle
From the potter's house, where he had lately been; and wher…

The prophet must give notice of ruin coming upon Judah and Jerusalem. Both rulers and ruled must attend to it. That place which holiness made the j…

Here, the full punishment is threatened.

1. First, he gives the place of the preaching: to the valley of the sons of Hinnom, whic…