JEREMIAH

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JEREMIAH

• The Weeping Prophet

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Jeremiah 11-2

• The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of
  the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of
  Benjamin, 2 to whom the word of the LORD came in
  the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of
  Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign

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Jeremiah 14-5

• Now the word of the LORD came to me saying, 5
  Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And
  before you were born I consecrated you I have
  appointed you a prophet to the nations.

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Jeremiah 16-8

• 6 Then I said, Alas, Lord God! Behold, I do not
  know how to speak, Because I am a youth.
• 7 But the LORD said to me, Do not say, I am a
  youth, Because everywhere I send you, you shall
  go, and all that I command you, you shall speak.
  8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to
  deliver you, declares the LORD.

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Jeremiah 19-10

• Then the LORD stretched out His hand and touched
  my mouth, and the LORD said to me, Behold, I
  have put My words in your mouth. 10 See, I have
  appointed you this day over the nations and over
  the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to
  destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

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Jeremiah 11-3

• The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of
  the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of
  Benjamin, 2 to whom the word of the LORD came in
  the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of
  Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3 It
  came also in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of
  Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the
  eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah,
  king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in
  the fifth month.

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Josiahs Reforms

• Josiah was the last of the good kings of Judah
• A Copy of the Scriptures found in the Temple
• National Repentance

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Scythians
ASSYRIA
Medes
Babylon
Jerusalem
(Chaldeans)
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? Carchemish
Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
Jerusalem
Pharaoh Neco
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Armageddeon A Symbol for a great and
decisive conflict
? Megiddo
? Jerusalem
(Josiah)
Pharaoh Neco
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Josiah
Jehoahaz
Eliakim (Jehoiakim)
Mattaniah (Zedekiah)
Jehoachin (Jeconiah)
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Jeremiah 4625-26

• The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says,
  Behold, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and
  Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her gods and her
  kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him.
  26 And I shall give them over to the power of
  those who are seeking their lives, even into the
  hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into
  the hand of his officers. Afterwards, however, it
  will be inhabited as in the days of old,
  declares the LORD.

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? Carchemish
Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
Jerusalem
First Deportation to Babylon
Pharaoh Neco
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Jeremiah 361-3

• And it came about in the fourth year of
  Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that
  this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
  2 Take a scroll and write on it all the words
  which I have spoken to you concerning Israel, and
  concerning Judah, and concerning all the nations,
  from the day I first spoke to you, from the days
  of Josiah, even to this day. 3 Perhaps the house
  of Judah will hear all the calamity which I plan
  to bring on them, in order that every man will
  turn from his evil way then I will forgive their
  iniquity and their sin.

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Jeremiah 364
Baruch son of Neriah

• Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah,
  and Baruch wrote at the dictation of Jeremiah all
  the words of the LORD, which He had spoken to
  him, on a scroll

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Jeremiah 369-10

• Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim
  the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth
  month, that all the people in Jerusalem and all
  the people who came from the cities of Judah to
  Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the LORD. 10
  Then Baruch read from the book the words of
  Jeremiah in the house of the LORD in the chamber
  of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the
  upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the
  LORDs house, to all the people

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Jeremiah 3622-24

• Now the king was sitting in the winter house in
  the ninth month, with a fire burning in the
  brazier before him. 23 And it came about, when
  Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king
  cut it with a scribe's knife and threw it into
  the fire that was in the brazier, until all the
  scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the
  brazier. 24 Yet the king and all his servants who
  heard all these words were not afraid, nor did
  they rend their garments.

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Jeremiah 3627-29

• Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah after
  the king had burned the scroll and the words
  which Baruch had written at the dictation of
  Jeremiah, saying, 28 Take again another scroll
  and write on it all the former words that were on
  the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of
  Judah burned. 29 And concerning Jehoiakim king of
  Judah you shall say, Thus says the LORD, You
  have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you
  written on it that the king of Babylon shall
  certainly come and destroy this land, and shall
  make man and beast to cease from it?

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Jeremiah 3630-31

• Therefore thus says the LORD concerning
  Jehoiakim king of Judah, He shall have no one to
  sit on the throne of David, and his dead body
  shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the
  frost of the night. 31 I shall also punish him
  and his descendants and his servants for their
  iniquity, and I shall bring on them and the
  inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all
  the calamity that I have declared to them -- but
  they did not listen.

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2 Chronicles 365-7

• Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he
  became king, and he reigned eleven years in
  Jerusalem and he did evil in the sight of the
  LORD his God.
• 6 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against
  him and bound him with bronze chains to take him
  to Babylon.
• 7 Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the
  articles of the house of the LORD to Babylon and
  put them in his temple at Babylon

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Josiah
Jehoahaz
Eliakim (Jehoiakim)
Mattaniah (Zedekiah)
Jehoachin (Jeconiah)
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2 Kings 248-9

• Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became
  king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem
  and his mother's name was Nehushta the daughter
  of Elnathan of Jerusalem. 9 And he did evil in
  the sight of the LORD, according to all that his
  father had done

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2 Kings 2410-12

• At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king
  of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city
  came under siege. 11 And Nebuchadnezzar the king
  of Babylon came to the city, while his servants
  were besieging it. 12 And Jehoiachin the king of
  Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his
  mother and his servants and his captains and his
  officials. So the king of Babylon took him
  captive in the eighth year of his reign.

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2 Kings 2413

• And he carried out from there all the treasures
  of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of
  the king's house, and cut in pieces all the
  vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had
  made in the temple of the LORD, just as the LORD
  had said.

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2 Kings 2414-15

• Then he led away into exile all Jerusalem and
  all the captains and all the mighty men of valor,
  ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and
  the smiths. None remained except the poorest
  people of the land. 15 So he led Jehoiachin away
  into exile to Babylon also the king's mother and
  the king's wives and his officials and the
  leading men of the land, he led away into exile
  from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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2 Kings 2416

• And all the men of valor, seven thousand, and
  the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all
  strong and fit for war, and these the king of
  Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.

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Josiah
Jehoahaz
Eliakim (Jehoiakim)
Mattaniah (Zedekiah)
Jehoachin (Jeconiah)
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Jeremiah 271-3

• In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the
  son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to
  Jeremiah from the LORD, saying-- 2 thus says the
  LORD to me-- Make for yourself bonds and yokes
  and put them on your neck, 3 and send word to the
  king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of
  the sons of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to
  the king of Sidon by the messengers who come to
  Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah

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Jeremiah 274-5

• And command them to go to their masters, saying,
  Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,
  thus you shall say to your masters, 5 I have
  made the earth, the men and the beasts which are
  on the face of the earth by My great power and by
  My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the
  one who is pleasing in My sight

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Jeremiah 276-7

• And now I have given all these lands into the
  hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My
  servant, and I have given him also the wild
  animals of the field to serve him. 7 And all the
  nations shall serve him, and his son, and his
  grandson, until the time of his own land comes
  then many nations and great kings will make him
  their servant.

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Jeremiah 278

• And it will be, that the nation or the kingdom
  which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of
  Babylon, and which will not put its neck under
  the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish
  that nation with the sword, with famine, and with
  pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have
  destroyed it by his hand.

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Jeremiah 279-11

• But as for you, do not listen to your
  prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your
  soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who speak to you,
  saying, 'You shall not serve the king of
  Babylon. 10 For they prophesy a lie to you, in
  order to remove you far from your land and I
  will drive you out, and you will perish. 11 But
  the nation which will bring its neck under the
  yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will
  let remain on its land, declares the LORD, and
  they will till it and dwell in it.

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Jeremiah 375

• Meanwhile, Pharaohs army had set out from
  Egypt and when the Chaldeans who had been
  besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them,
  they lifted the siege from Jerusalem.

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Jeremiah 376-8

• Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the
  prophet, saying, 7 Thus says the LORD God of
  Israel, Thus you are to say to the king of
  Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me
  Behold, Pharaoh's army which has come out for
  your assistance is going to return to its own
  land of Egypt. 8 The Chaldeans will also return
  and fight against this city, and they will
  capture it and burn it with fire.

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Jeremiah 386

• Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the
  cistern of Malchijah the king's son, which was in
  the court of the guardhouse and they let
  Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern
  there was no water but only mud, and Jeremiah
  sank into the mud

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Jeremiah 391-2

• Now it came about when Jerusalem was captured in
  the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the
  tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and
  all his army came to Jerusalem and laid siege to
  it 2 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the
  fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the
  city wall was breached

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Jeremiah 393-4

• Then all the officials of the king of Babylon
  came in and sat down at the Middle Gate
  Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the
  Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all
  the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.
• 4 And it came about, when Zedekiah the king of
  Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they
  fled and went out of the city at night by way of
  the king's garden through the gate between the
  two walls and he went out toward the Arabah.

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Jeremiah 395-7

• But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and
  overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho and
  they seized him and brought him up to
  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the
  land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.
• 6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of
  Zedekiah before his eyes at Riblah the king of
  Babylon also slew all the nobles of Judah. 7 He
  then blinded Zedekiahs eyes and bound him in
  fetters of bronze to bring him to Babylon.

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Jeremiah 398-9

• The Chaldeans also burned with fire the king's
  palace and the houses of the people, and they
  broke down the walls of Jerusalem. 9 And as for
  the rest of the people who were left in the city,
  the deserters who had gone over to him and the
  rest of the people who remained, Nebuzaradan the
  captain of the bodyguard carried them into exile
  in Babylon.

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Gedaliah

• Appointed as governor by Nebuchadnezzar
• Government at Mizpah
• Gedaliah Murdered

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Jeremiah 14-5

• Now the word of the LORD came to me saying, 5
  "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And
  before you were born I consecrated you I have
  appointed you a prophet to the nations."

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Jeremiah 16-8

• Then I said, "Alas, Lord God! Behold, I do not
  know how to speak, Because I am a youth."
• 7 But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am a
  youth,' Because everywhere I send you, you shall
  go, And all that I command you, you shall speak.
  8 Do not be afraid of them, For I am with you to
  deliver you," declares the LORD.

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Jeremiah 19-10

• 9 Then the LORD stretched out His hand and
  touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me,
  "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
• 10 "See, I have appointed you this day over the
  nations and over the kingdoms,
• To pluck up and to break down,
• To destroy and to overthrow,
• To build and to plant."

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Jeremiah 111-12

• 11 And the word of the LORD came to me saying,
  "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "I see a
  rod of an almond tree.
• 12 Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen
  well, for I am watching over My word to perform
  it."

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Jeremiah 113-14

• 13 And the word of the LORD came to me a second
  time saying, "What do you see?" And I said, "I
  see a boiling pot, facing away from the north."
• 14 Then the LORD said to me, "Out of the north
  the evil will break forth on all the inhabitants
  of the land.

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Jeremiah 211-12

• 11 "Has a nation changed gods,
• When they were not gods?
• But My people have changed their glory
• For that which does not profit.
• 12 "Be appalled, O heavens, at this,
• And shudder, be very desolate," declares the LORD.

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Jeremiah 213

• "For My people have committed two evils
• They have forsaken Me,
• The fountain of living waters,
• To hew for themselves cisterns,
• Broken cisterns,
• That can hold no water

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Jeremiah 51

• Roam to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
• And look now, and take note.
• And seek in her open squares,
• If you can find a man,
• If there is one who does justice, who seeks
  truth,
• Then I will pardon her.

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Jeremiah 515-16

• 15 "Behold, I am bringing a nation against you
  from afar,
• O house of Israel," declares the LORD.
• "It is an enduring nation,
• It is an ancient nation,
• A nation whose language you do not know,
• Nor can you understand what they say.
• 16 Their quiver is like an open grave,
• All of them are mighty men.

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Jeremiah 517

• And they will devour your harvest and your food
• They will devour your sons and your daughters
• They will devour your flocks and your herds
• They will devour your vines and your fig trees
• They will demolish with the sword your fortified
  cities in which you trust.

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Jeremiah 2910

• "For thus says the LORD,
• 'When seventy years have been completed for
  Babylon,
• I will visit you and fulfill
• My good word to you, to bring you back to this
  place.

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Jeremiah 2911-13

• 'For I know the plans that I have for you,'
  declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for
  calamity to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then
  you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me,
  and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me
  and find Me, when you search for Me with all your
  heart.

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Jeremiah 326-7

• And Jeremiah said, "The word of the LORD came to
  me, saying, 7 'Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum
  your uncle is coming to you, saying, "Buy for
  yourself my field which is at Anathoth, for you
  have the right of redemption to buy it."'

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Jeremiah 3131-32

• Behold, days are coming, declares the LORD,
  when I will make a new covenant with the house
  of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not
  like the covenant which I made with their fathers
  in the day I took them by the hand to bring them
  out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they
  broke, although I was a husband to them,
  declares the LORD.

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Jeremiah 3133-34

• But this is the covenant which I will make with
  the house of Israel after those days," declares
  the LORD, I will put My law within them, and on
  their heart I will write it and I will be their
  God, and they shall be My people. 34 And they
  shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and
  each man his brother, saying, Know the LORD,
  for they shall all know Me, from the least of
  them to the greatest of them, declares the LORD,
  for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin
  I will remember no more.

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The New Covenant is Better

• Because it is an Internal Covenant I will put
  My law within them, and on their heart I will
  write it
• Because it in All-Inclusive And they shall not
  teach again, each man his neighbor and each man
  his brother, saying, Know the LORD, for they
  shall all know Me, from the least of them to the
  greatest of them, declares the LORD

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The New Covenant is Better

• Because it Forgives Sins For I will forgive
  their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no
  more (3134).
• Because is does not become Obsolete.

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Lessons from Jeremiah

• The lesson of Gods Sovereignty.
• The lesson of Gods Justice.
• The lesson of Gods Grace.
• The lesson of Leadership

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LAMENTATIONS

• The Book of Sorrow

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Lamentations 340-42

• Let us examine and probe our ways,
• And let us return to the LORD.
• We lift up our heart and hands
• Toward God in heaven
• We have transgressed and rebelled,
• Thou hast not pardoned

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Lessons from Lamentations

• God is Sovereign over the Events of Men.
• Lamentations 337-38
• Sin brings forth Tragic Consequences.
• Lamentations 515-16
• There is Hope in the Darkness.
• Lamentations 319-23

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Homework for Next Class

• Read Zephaniah, Joel, Obadiah Habakkuk
• Read Handbook on the Prophets, Pages 368-377,
  403-406, 433-451.
• Read Introduction to the Old Testament Prophets
  Chap 26, 28, 32-33
• Do Study Guide 6 of He Gave Us Prophets from
  Pratt Video/Audio

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