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Pottery

18 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.

These works date from 1884–1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.

The verses

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1 Chronicles 4:23Easton · Smith
These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
Isaiah 41:25Smith · Nave Clay prepared for, by treading
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Isaiah 45:9Easton · Smith
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Isaiah 64:8Easton · Nave FIGURATIVE
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Jeremiah 18:3Easton · Nave Vessels made of
Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
Romans 9:21Easton · Nave FIGURATIVE
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Genesis 14:18Easton
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
Psalms 2:9Easton
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
Psalms 81:6Smith
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
Isaiah 30:11Smith
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Jeremiah 15:3Smith
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Jeremiah 18:4Nave Vessels made of
And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

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Jeremiah 19:1 Easton
Lamentations 4:2 Easton
Daniel 2:41 Nave FIGURATIVE — Of weakness, in the idol in Nebuchadnezzars vision
Zechariah 11:13 Easton
Wisdom of Solomon 15:7 Smith
Matthew 27:7–10 Nave Place for manufacture of, outside the wall of Jerusalem, bought as a burying ground for poor people

In the reference works

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 16 references

The art of, was early practised among all nations. Various materials seem to have been employed by the potter. Earthenware is mentioned in connection with the history of Melchizedek (Gen. 14:18), of Abraham (18:4-8), of Rebekah (27:14), of Rachel (29:2, 3, 8, 10). The potter’s wheel is mentioned by Jeremiah (18:3). See also 1 Chr. 4:23; Ps. 2:9; Isa. 45:9; 64:8; Jer. 19:1; Lam. 4:2; Zech. 11:13; Rom. 9:21.

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 7 references

The art of pottery is one of the most common and most ancient of all manufactures. It is abundantly evident, both that the Hebrews used earthenware vessels in the wilderness and that the potter’s trade was afterward carried on in Palestine. They had themselves been concerned in the potter’s trade in Egypt, (Psalms 81:6) and the wall-paintings minutely illustrate the Egyptian process. The clay, when dug, was trodden by men’s feet so as to form a paste, (Isaiah 41:25) Wisd. 15:7; then placed by the potter on the wheel beside which he sat, and shaped by him with his hands. How early the wheel came into use in Palestine is not known, but it seems likely that it was adopted from Egypt. (Isaiah 45:9; Jeremiah 15:3) The vessel was then smoothed and coated with a glaze, and finally burnt in a furnace. There was at Jerusalem a royal establishment of potters, (1 Chronicles 4:23) from whose employment, and from the fragments cast away in the process, the Potter’s Field perhaps received its name. (Isaiah 30:11)

In the topical indexes

Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 7 references, grouped by sub-topic

→ Clay prepared for, by treading Isa 41:25
→ Vessels made of Jer 18:3,4
→ Place for manufacture of, outside the wall of Jerusalem, bought as a burying ground for poor people Mt 27:7-10
→ FIGURATIVE Isa 64:8; Ro 9:21
- Of weakness, in the idol in Nebuchadnezzars vision Da 2:41

Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.

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