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Jeremiah 18:2

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Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
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  1. Hebrews 1:1Rank 1 from verse 2
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    1GOD, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

  2. Acts 9:6Rank 2 from verse 2
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    6And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

  3. Jeremiah 19:1–2Rank 3 from verse 2
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    1THUS 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;

    2And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

  4. Jeremiah 23:22Rank 4 from verse 2
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    22But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

  5. Amos 7:7Rank 5 from verse 2
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    7¶ Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

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Jeremiah 18:2

COMBINED MEANING

arise

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1. To rise, stand, get up, or move upward from a lower, lying, seated, fallen, or inactive position. 2. To begin, emerge, appear, come into being, or come forward. 3. To take action, intervene, or undertake the stated work. 4. To rise from death; to return to life.

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COMBINED MEANING

house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

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cause

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Sense 1: A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case. Sense 2: As a verb, to make something happen.

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hear

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Sense 1: To perceive sound or spoken words. Sense 2: To receive or learn by report. Sense 3: To listen to, regard, or heed. Sense 4: To attend favourably to a request.

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COMBINED MEANING

words

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Spoken or written expressions, sayings, statements, messages, commands, promises, reports, or units of meaningful speech.

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18:1THE word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

18:2Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

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18:3Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

18:4And 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.

18:5Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

18:6O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

18:7At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

18:8If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

18:9And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

18:10If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

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