the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Bible Commentaries
Scofield's Reference Notes Scofield's Notes
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 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 20
Jeremiah's Suffering and Complaint; Confidence in God.Chapter 22
Judgment on Judah's Kings; Call for Justice.Chapter 23
The Righteous Branch; False Prophets and True Shepherds.Chapter 25
Seventy Years of Captivity; Judgment on Nations.Chapter 26
Jeremiah's Message; Opposition and Deliverance.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 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 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 46
Prophecies against Egypt and its Allies.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 C.I. Scofield
Book Introduction - Jeremiah
Jeremiah 1:1
Jeremiah began his ministry in the 13th year of Josiah, about 60 years after Isaiah's death. Zephaniah and Habakkuk were contemporaries of his earlier ministry. Daniel of his later. After the death of Josiah, the kingdom of Judah hastened to its end in the Babylonian captivity. Jeremiah remained in the land ministering to the poor Remnant (2 Kings 24:14) until they went into Egypt, whither he followed them, and where he died, early in the 70 year's captivity. Jeremiah, prophesying before and during the exile of Judah, connects the pre-exile prophets with Ezekiel and Daniel, prophets of the exile.
Jeremiah's vision includes: the Babylonian captivity; the return after 70 years; the world- wide dispersion; the final regathering; the kingdom-age; the day of judgment on the Gentile powers, and the Remnant.
Jeremiah is in six chief divisions: From the prophet's call to his message to the first captives. Jeremiah 1:1-32. Prophecies and events not chronological, Jeremiah 30:1-2. From the accession to the captivity of Zedekiah, 37:1-39,18. Jeremiah's prophecies in the land after the final captivity of Judah, Jeremiah 40:1-22. The prophet in Egypt, Jeremiah 43:1-30. Miscellaneous prophecies Jeremiah 45:1-34.
The events recorded in Jeremiah cover a period of 41 years (Ussher).
