Pottery

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Clay prepared for, by treading

• Isaiah 41:25 I have raised up one from the north, and he has come — one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.

Vessels made of

• Jeremiah 18:3–4 So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the wheel. But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.

Place for manufacture of, outside the wall of Jerusalem, bought as a burying ground for poor people

• Matthew 27:7–10 After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners. That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day. Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on Him by…

Figurative

• Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
• Romans 9:21 Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

Of weakness, in the idol in Nebuchadnezzars vision

• Daniel 2:41 And just as you saw that the feet and toes were made partly of fired clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom, yet some of the strength of iron will be in it — just as you saw the iron mixed with clay.