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Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 1

Jeremiah's calling and commission

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 2

Charges against Israel and Judah

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 3:1-4:4

God's wife has committed harlotry, call to repentance

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 4:5-31

Warning of Judah's coming invasion, Jeremiah mourns

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 5

Reasons for coming judgment

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 6

Further warning of impending judgment

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 7:1-27

God wants obedience, not just the form of religion

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 7:28-8:17

Judgment on abominable religious practices

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 8:18-9:26

Punishment for shameless disobedience, Jeremiah laments

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 10

Decorated trees, God's people to captivity, fury on the nations

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 11:1-17

The covenant broken, Judah cursed

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 11:18-12:17

Plot against Jeremiah, his complaint, God's response, further prophecy against Judah, punishment and hope of the gentiles

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 13

Signs of the linen waistband and wine jugs, Judah to be carried away captive

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 14:1-15:9

Droughts, Sword, famine and pestilence will certainly follow

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 15:10-21

Jeremiah's dejection, God's exhortation and reassurance

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 16

Jeremiah's lifestyle as witness against Judah, Israel's future return, imminent punishment, nations will come to know God

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 17

Judah's sin and punishment, trust in man vs. trust in God, Jeremiah prays for salvation and vindication, honor the Sabbath

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 18

Illustration of the potter and clay, call to repentance rejected, plans laid against Jeremiah

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 19-20

Sign of the broken flask, Jeremiah beaten and put in stocks, message to Pashhur, Jeremiah's suffering and further dejection

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 21 and Related

Zedekiah sends men to Jeremiah to inquire of God, God will destroy Jerusalem by the Babylonians, Zedekiah will be taken

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 22:1-23 and Related

Judah's coming punishment, death of Josiah, reign of Jehoahaz over Judah, reign of Jehoiakim over Judah, message concerning Shallum (Jehoahaz) and Jehoiakim

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 22:24-23:40 and Related

Reign of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah-Coniah), message to Coniah, woe to shepherds, branch of righteousness, false prophets

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 24:1-10 and Related

Nebuchadnezzar besieges Judah, Jeconiah and the nobles carried captive, Zedekiah king of Judah, sign of the fig baskets

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 25

Prophecy of 70 years, judgment on the nations

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 26

Jeremiah on trial for his life, death of Urijah, Jeremiah spared

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 27-28

Symbolic bonds and yokes, false prophet Hananiah

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 29

Jeremiah's letter to the captives in Babylon

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 30:1-31:26

Jacob's trouble, Israel and Judah freed from captivity and restored

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 31:27-40 and Related

New Covenant, prophecy against Elam

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 32

Jeremiah buys his cousin's field, the people will return and enter into God's everlasting covenant

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 33

Restoration of Israel and Judah, the righteous Branch, the continuity of the Davidic and Levitical family lines

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 34:1-7 and Related

Zedekiah sends men to Jeremiah to inquire of God, God will destroy Jerusalem by the Babylonians, Zedekiah will be taken

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 34:8-22 and Related

Zedekiah sends another delegation, the Babylonians break off Jerusalem siege to confront Egyptian troops, Jews reenslave freed slaves, Babylonian army will return

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 35

Example of the Rechabites

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 36:1-7 and Related

Instructions to Baruch, reading of Jeremiah's scroll, King Jehoiakim burns the scroll, the scroll rewritten

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 36:8-32 and Related

Instructions to Baruch, reading of Jeremiah's scroll, King Jehoiakim burns the scroll, the scroll rewritten

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 37:1-10 and Related

Zedekiah sends another delegation, the Babylonians break off Jerusalem siege to confront Egyptian troops, Jews reenslave freed slaves, Babylonian army will return

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 37:11–38:28

Jeremiah imprisoned in a dungeon, then moved to the prison court, Zedekiah seeks his counsel

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 39:1 and Related

Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem, parable of the cooking pot, Ezekiel's wife dies

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 39:2-7 and Related

Fall of Jerusalem, Judah's nobility killed and Zedekiah blinded and taken captive to die in Babylon

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 39:8-10 and Related

Destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, killing of important officials, final deportations, land to enjoy its Sabbaths

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 39:11-40:6 and Related

Gedaliah made governor of Judah, Jeremiah freed from prison, message to Ebed-Melech

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 40:7-41:18 and Related

Governorship of Gedaliah, killed by insurrection

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 42-43

God tells the remnant not to flee to Egypt, they flee anyway, taking Jeremiah, Baruch and king's daughters

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 44

Jews in Egypt to be punished

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 45:1-5 and Related

Instructions to Baruch, reading of Jeremiah's scroll, King Jehoiakim burns the scroll, the scroll rewritten

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 46:1-12

Defeat of Necho's army at Carchemish and further retreat

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 46:13-47:7 and Related

Prophecies against Egypt and Philistia, Babylon quashes Jehoiakim's rebellion, Jehoiakim's death

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 48

Prophecy against Moab

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 49:1-33

Prophecies against Ammon, Edom, Syria and Arabia

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 49:34-39 and Related

New Covenant, prophecy against Elam

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 50:1-46 and Related

Prophecy against Babylon

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 51:1-58, 61-64

Prophecy against Babylon continued

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 51:59-61 and Related

Prophecy against Babylon

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 52:1-3 and Related

Nebuchadnezzar besieges Judah, Jeconiah and the nobles carried captive, Zedekiah king of Judah, sign of the fig baskets

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 52:3b and Related

Zedekiah rebels against Babylon, two harlot sisters, Oholah (Samaria) and Oholibah (Jerusalem), judged

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 52:3b and Related

Zedekiah rebels against Babylon, two harlot sisters, Oholah (Samaria) and Oholibah (Jerusalem), judged

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 52:4 and Related

Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem, parable of the cooking pot, Ezekiel's wife dies

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 52:5-11 and Related

Fall of Jerusalem, Judah's nobility killed and Zedekiah blinded and taken captive to die in Babylon

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 52:12-30 and Related

Destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, killing of important officials, final deportations, land to enjoy its Sabbaths

Bible Commentary: Jeremiah 52:31-34 and Related

Jeconiah released from prison during the reign of Babylonian ruler Evil-Merodach