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Bible Commentaries
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Jeremiah's Calling and Divine Appointment.Chapter 2
Israel's Unfaithfulness; Call to Repentance.Chapter 3
Call to Return to God; Israel's Waywardness.Chapter 4
Impending Judgment and Call for Repentance.Chapter 5
The People's Sin and Coming Judgment.Chapter 6
Imminent Judgment; Call to Flee from Danger.Chapter 7
Temple Sermons; Rejection of Empty Rituals.Chapter 8
Judgment and Sorrow over Israel's Sin.Chapter 9
Lament over Judah's Sin; Call for Truth.Chapter 10
God's Sovereignty versus Idolatry; Judgment on Nations.Chapter 11
The Covenant Broken; Conspiracy against Jeremiah.Chapter 12
Jeremiah's Complaint; Divine Response about Judgment.Chapter 13
Symbolic Acts Illustrating Judah's Sin and Judgment.Chapter 14
Drought; Jeremiah's Plea for Mercy.Chapter 15
God's Judgment; Jeremiah's Lament and Call for Deliverance.Chapter 16
Restrictions on Jeremiah; Prophecy of Judgment and Restoration.Chapter 17
Judah's Sin and its Consequences; Blessing of Trust in God.Chapter 18
The Potter's House; Israel's Choice and Consequences.Chapter 19
Symbolic Act of the Broken Jar; Judgment.Chapter 20
Jeremiah's Suffering and Complaint; Confidence in God.Chapter 21
Judgment against Jerusalem; Promise of Deliverance.Chapter 22
Judgment on Judah's Kings; Call for Justice.Chapter 23
The Righteous Branch; False Prophets and True Shepherds.Chapter 24
Vision of Good and Bad Figs; Exile's Outcome.Chapter 25
Seventy Years of Captivity; Judgment on Nations.Chapter 26
Jeremiah's Message; Opposition and Deliverance.Chapter 27
The Yoke of Babylon; Warning to Surrounding Nations.Chapter 28
False Prophet Hananiah's Prophecy and Judgment.Chapter 29
Letter to the Exiles; Promise of Restoration.Chapter 30
Restoration and Future Blessings for Israel.Chapter 31
New Covenant and Restoration; Future Hope.Chapter 32
Purchase of the Field; Confirmation of God's Promise.Chapter 33
Promises of Restoration and Righteous Leadership.Chapter 34
Judgment on Zedekiah; Broken Covenant.Chapter 35
The Rechabites' Example; Judgment on Judah.Chapter 36
Baruch's Scroll; Jehoiakim's Rejection and Destruction.Chapter 37
Jeremiah's Imprisonment; Warnings to Zedekiah.Chapter 38
Jeremiah's Trial and Rescue from the Pit.Chapter 39
Jerusalem's Fall and Exile; Jeremiah's Release.Chapter 40
Gedaliah Appointed Governor; Warning of Further Invasion.Chapter 41
Murder of Gedaliah; Flight to Egypt.Chapter 42
Jeremiah's Warning against Going to Egypt.Chapter 43
Flight to Egypt; Idolatry Condemned.Chapter 44
Judgment on Those Who Worshipped Idols in Egypt.Chapter 45
Message to Baruch; Reassurance amid Trials.Chapter 46
Prophecies against Egypt and its Allies.Chapter 47
Prophecy against the Philistines.Chapter 48
Prophecy against Moab and its Destruction.Chapter 49
Prophecies against Ammon, Edom, Damascus, and Elam.Chapter 50
Prophecy against Babylon; Future Restoration of Israel.Chapter 51
Further Prophecy against Babylon; Call to Flee.Chapter 52
Fall of Jerusalem; Final Note on Zedekiah.
- Jeremiah
by George Leo Haydock
THE PROPHECY OF JEREMIAS.
INTRODUCTION.
Jeremias was a priest, a native of Anathoth, a priestly city, in the tribe of Benjamin, and was sanctified from his mother’s womb to be a prophet of God; which office he began to execute when he was yet a child in age. He was in his whole life, according to the signification of his name, great before the Lord, and a special figure of Jesus Christ, in the persecutions he underwent for discharging his duty, in his charity for his persecutors, and in the violent death he suffered at their hands; it being an ancient tradition of the Hebrews, that he was stoned to death by the remnant of the Jews who had retired into Egypt, (Challoner) at Taphnes. His style is plaintive, (Worthington) like that of Simonides, (Calmet) and not so noble as that of Isaias and Osee. (St. Jerome) --- He was the prophet of the Gentiles, as well as of the Jews, predicting many things which befell both, and particularly the liberation of the latter, the year of the world 3485, after the seventy years’ captivity, dating from the year of the world 3415, (Calmet) or 3398, the 4th of Joakim. (Usher) (Chap. xxv.) (Haydock) --- He began to prophesy when he was very young, the year of the world 3375, in the 13th year of Josias, (Calmet) before that prince had brought his reformation to any great perfection. (Haydock)
