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Bible Commentaries
Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible Henry's Concise
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 Matthew Henry
** Jeremiah was a priest, a native of Anathoth, in the tribe of Benjamin. He was called to the prophetic office when very young, about seventy years after the death of Isaiah, and exercised it for about forty years with great faithfulness, till the sins of the Jewish nation came to their full measure and destruction followed. The prophecies of Jeremiah do not stand as they were delivered. Blayney has endeavoured to arrange them in more regular order, namely, ch. 1-20; 22; 23; 25; 26; 35; 36; 45; 24; 29; 30; 31; 27; 28; 21; 34; 37; 32; 33; 38; 39; (ver. 15-18, 1-14.) 40-44; 46-52. The general subject of his prophecies is the idolatry and other sins of the Jews; the judgments by which they were threatened, with references to their future restoration and deliverance, and promises of the Messiah. They are remarkable for plain and faithful reproofs, affectionate expostulations, and awful warnings. * Jeremiah's call to the prophetic office. (1-10) A vision of an almond-tree and of a seething-pot, Divine protection is promised. (11-19)
