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BookOfJeremiah
| 1Kings: | AUTHOR: Jeremiah - 600 B.C. - OLD TESTAMENT - History |
| 2Kings: | AUTHOR: Jeremiah - 600 B.C. - OLD TESTAMENT - History |
| Jeremiah: | AUTHOR: Jeremiah - 600 B.C. - OLD TESTAMENT - Major Prophets |
| Lamentations: | AUTHOR: Jeremiah - 600 B.C. - OLD TESTAMENT - Major Prophets |
| smith@Jeremiah:1 | JEREMIAH - Jeremiah was God’s spokesman during the decline and fall of the southern kingdom, Judah. Among the Prophets not one had a more difficult task than that of standing alone for God in the midst of the apostasy of his own people, and not one who bares his soul to his reader as does Jeremiah. Although Jeremiah announced the coming destruction of Judah, he looked beyond this judgement to a day when religion, no longer national, would be individual and spiritual. This new kind of religion would result from God’s "new covenant" with His people. |
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Jeremiah @ raised up or appointed by Jehovah. (1.) A Gadite who joined David in the wilderness ( smith@1Chronicles:12:10). (2.) A Gadite warrior ( smith@1Chronicles:12:13). (3.) A Benjamite slinger who joined David at Ziklag ( smith@1Chronicles:12:4). (4.) One of the chiefs of the tribe of Manasseh on the east of Jordan ( smith@1Chronicles:5:24). (5.) The father of Hamutal ( smith@2Kings:23:31), the wife of Josiah. (6.) One of the "greater prophets" of the Old Testament, son of Hilkiah (q.v.), a priest of Anathoth smith@Jeremiah:1:1 smith@Jeremiah:32:6). He was called to the prophetical office when still young (1:6), in the thirteenth year of Josiah (B.C. 628). He left his native place, and went to reside in Jerusalem, where he greatly assisted Josiah in his work of reformation ( smith@2Kings:23:1-25). The death of this pious king was bewailed by the prophet as a national calamity ( smith@2Chronicals:35:25). During the three years of the reign of Jehoahaz we find no reference to Jeremiah, but in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the enmity of the people against him broke out in bitter persecution, and he was placed apparently under restraint smith@Jeremiah:36:5). In the fourth year of Jehoiakim he was commanded to write the predictions given to him, and to read them to the people on the fast-day. This was done by Baruch his servant in his stead, and produced much public excitement. The roll was read to the king. In his recklessness he seized the roll, and cut it to pieces, and cast it into the fire, and ordered both Baruch and Jeremiah to be apprehended. Jeremiah procured another roll, and wrote in it the words of the roll the king had destroyed, and "many like words" besides smith@Jeremiah:36:32). He remained in Jerusalem, uttering from time to time his words of warning, but without effect. He was there when Nebuchadnezzar besieged the city smith@Jeremiah:37:4-5), B.C. 589. The rumour of the approach of the Egyptians to aid the Jews in this crisis induced the Chaldeans to withdraw and return to their own land. This, however, was only for a time. The prophet, in answer to his prayer, received a message from God announcing that the Chaldeans would come again and take the city, and burn it with fire (37:7-8). The princes, in their anger at such a message by Jeremiah, cast him into prison (37:15-38:13). He was still in confinement when the city was taken (B.C. 588). The Chaldeans released him, and showed him great kindness, allowing him to choose the place of his residence. He accordingly went to Mizpah with Gedaliah, who had been made governor of Judea. Johanan succeeded Gedaliah, and refusing to listen to Jeremiah's counsels, went down into Egypt, taking Jeremiah and Baruch with him smith@Jeremiah:43:6). There probably the prophet spent the remainder of his life, in vain seeking still to turn the people to the Lord, from whom they had so long revolted (44). He lived till the reign of Evil-Merodach, son of Nebuchadnezzar, and must have been about ninety years of age at his death. We have no authentic record of his death. He may have died at Tahpanhes, or, according to a tradition, may have gone to Babylon with the army of Nebuchadnezzar; but of this there is nothing certain.
Jeremiah, Book of @ consists of twenty-three separate and independent sections, arranged in five books. I. The introduction, ch. 1. II. Reproofs of the sins of the Jews, consisting of seven sections, (1.) ch. 2; (2.) ch. 3-6; (3.) ch. 7-10; (4.) ch. 11-13; (5.) ch. 14-17:18; (6.) ch. 17:19-ch. 20; (7.) ch. 21-24. III. A general review of all nations, in two sections, (1.) ch. 46-49; (2.) ch. 25; with an historical appendix of three sections, (1.) ch. 26; (2.) ch. 27; (3.) ch. 28, 29. IV. Two sections picturing the hopes of better times, (1.) ch. 30, 31; (2.) ch. 32-33; to which is added an historical appendix in three sections, (1.) ch. 34:1-7; (2.) ch. 34:8-22; (3.) ch. 35. V. The conclusion, in two sections, (1.) ch. 36; (2.) ch. 45. In Egypt, after an interval, Jeremiah is supposed to have added three sections, viz., ch. 37-39; 40-43; and 44. The principal Messianic prophecies are found in 23:1-8; 31:31-40; and 33:14-26. Jeremiah's prophecies are noted for the frequent repetitions found in them of the same words and phrases and imagery. They cover the period of about 30 years. They are not recorded in the order of time. When and under what circumstances this book assumed its present form we know not. The LXX. Version of this book is, in its arrangement and in other particulars, singularly at variance with the original. The LXX. omits 10:6-8; 27:19-22; 29:16-20; 33:14-26; 39:4-13; 52:2-3, 15, 28-30, etc. About 2,700 words in all of the original are omitted. These omissions, etc., are capricious and arbitrary, and render the version unreliable.
| smith@Jeremiah:1:1-3 | Introduction |
| smith@Jeremiah:1:4-19 | The Call of Jeremiah |
| smith@Jeremiah:2:1-3:5 | Israel Forsakes God |
| smith@Jeremiah:3:6-4:4 | Unfaithful Israel |
| smith@Jeremiah:4:5-31 | Disaster From the North |
| smith@Jeremiah:5 | Not One Is Upright |
| smith@Jeremiah:6 | Jerusalem Under Siege |
| smith@Jeremiah:7:1-29 | False Religion Worthless |
| smith@Jeremiah:7:30-8:3 | The Valley of Slaughter |
| smith@Jeremiah:8:4-9:26 | Sin and Punishment |
| smith@Jeremiah:10:1-16 | God and Idols |
| smith@Jeremiah:10:17-22 | Coming Destruction |
| smith@Jeremiah:10:23-25 | Jeremiah's Prayer |
| smith@Jeremiah:11:1-17 | The Covenant Is Broken |
| smith@Jeremiah:11:18-23 | Plot Against Jeremiah |
| smith@Jeremiah:12:1-4 | Jeremiah's Complaint |
| smith@Jeremiah:12:5-17 | God's Answer |
| smith@Jeremiah:13:1-11 | A Linen Belt |
| smith@Jeremiah:13:12-14 | Wineskins |
| smith@Jeremiah:13:15-27 | Threat of Captivity |
| smith@Jeremiah:14:1-15:21 | Drought, Famine, Sword |
| smith@Jeremiah:16:1-17:18 | Day of Disaster |
| smith@Jeremiah:17:19-27 | Keeping the Sabbath Holy |
| smith@Jeremiah:18:1-19:15 | At the Potter's House |
| smith@Jeremiah:20:1-6 | Jeremiah and Pashhur |
| smith@Jeremiah:20:7-18 | Jeremiah's Complaint |
| smith@Jeremiah:21 | God Rejects Zedekiah's Request |
| smith@Jeremiah:22 | Judgment Against Evil Kings |
| smith@Jeremiah:23:1-8 | The Righteous Branch |
| smith@Jeremiah:23:9-32 | Lying Prophets |
| smith@Jeremiah:23:33-40 | False Oracles and False Prophets |
| smith@Jeremiah:24 | Two Baskets of Figs |
| smith@Jeremiah:25:1-14 | Seventy Years of Captivity |
| smith@Jeremiah:25:15-38 | The Cup of God's Wrath |
| smith@Jeremiah:26 | Jeremiah Threatened With Death |
| smith@Jeremiah:27 | Judah to Serve Nebuchadnezzar |
| smith@Jeremiah:28 | The False Prophet Hananiah |
| smith@Jeremiah:29:1-23 | A Letter to the Exiles |
| smith@Jeremiah:29:24-32 | Message to Shemaiah |
| smith@Jeremiah:30:1-31:40 | Restoration of Israel |
| smith@Jeremiah:32 | Jeremiah Buys a Field |
| smith@Jeremiah:33 | Promise of Restoration |
| smith@Jeremiah:34:1-7 | Warning to Zedekiah |
| smith@Jeremiah:34:8-22 | Freedom for Slaves |
| smith@Jeremiah:35 | The Recabites |
| smith@Jeremiah:36 | Jehoiakim Burns Jeremiah's Scroll |
| smith@Jeremiah:37 | Jeremiah in Prison |
| smith@Jeremiah:38:1-13 | Jeremiah Thrown Into a Cistern |
| smith@Jeremiah:38:14-28 | Zedekiah Questions Jeremiah Again |
| smith@Jeremiah:39 | The Fall of Jerusalem |
| smith@Jeremiah:40:1-41:15 | Jeremiah Freed |
| smith@Jeremiah:41:16-43:13 | Flight to Egypt |
| smith@Jeremiah:44 | Disaster Because of Idolatry |
| smith@Jeremiah:45 | A Message to Baruch |
| smith@Jeremiah:46 | A Message About Egypt |
| smith@Jeremiah:47 | A Message About the Philistines |
| smith@Jeremiah:48 | A Message About Moab |
| smith@Jeremiah:49:1-6 | A Message About Ammon |
| smith@Jeremiah:49:7-22 | A Message About Edom |
| smith@Jeremiah:49:23-27 | A Message About Damascus |
| smith@Jeremiah:49:28-33 | A Message About Kedar and Hazor |
| smith@Jeremiah:49:34-39 | A Message About Elam |
| smith@Jeremiah:50:1-51:64 | A Message About Babylon |
| smith@Jeremiah:52:1-30 | The Fall of Jerusalem |
| smith@Jeremiah:52:31-34 | Jehoiachin Released |
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