Jeremiah

Contains the Biography and Message of "The Weeping Prophet"

THE PERIOD, Dark days in the Kingdom of Judah,-from the thirteenth year of Josiah (the last good king) until some years beyond the captivity.

MAIN THEMES, The Backsliding, Bondage, and Restoration of the Jews.

THE LIFE OF JEREMIAH

Family

 Jer 1:1

Birth, and Divine choice as Prophet

 Jer 1:5

Youthful Call,-in the days of King Josiah

 Jer 1:2-6

Divine Enduement

 Jer 1:9

Commission

 Jer 1:10

Promise of Divine Presence

 Jer 1:19

Pressure of Duty upon

 Jer 20:9

Sustained by the Word of God

 Jer 15:16

Persecution of, predicted

 Jer 1:19

Put in the Stocks

 Jer 20:2

In a miry Dungeon

 Jer 38:6

Carried into Egypt

 Jer 43:5-7

SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK

(1) Call of the prophet, ch. 1

 Jer 1:1

(2) Rebukes, Warnings, and Promises to the Jews, chs. 2-20

 Jer 2:1 - 20:1

(3) A Denunciation of rulers, and also of False Shepherds and Prophets, chs. 21-23
 Jer 21:1 - 23:1

(4) Predictions of Divine Judgments, the Overthrow of Jerusalem, and the Seventy Years captivity, chs. 25-29

 Jer 25:1 - 29:1

(5) Promises of the Restoration of the Jews, chs. 30-33

 Jer 30:1 - 33:1

(6) Prophecies occasioned by the sins of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah, chs. 34-39

 Jer 34:1 - 39:1

(7) The wretched condition of the Remnant left in Judah, and Prophecies uttered to them, chs. 40-44

 Jer 40:1 - 44:1

(8) Consolation to Baruch, ch. 45

 Jer 45:1

(9) Prophecies concerning the Hostile Nations, chs. 46-51

 Jer 46:1 - 51:1

THE MESSAGE

(1) Some High Spots In

(a) The fountain and cistern

 Jer 2:13

(b) The ineradicable stain of sin

 Jer 2:22

(c) The search for a man

 Jer 5:1

(d) The old ways, best

 Jer 6:16

(e) The lost opportunity

 Jer 8:20

(f) The tearful call to repentance

 Jer 9:1

(g) The depravity of the human heart

 Jer 17:9

(h) The clay and the potter, ch. 18

 Jer 18:1

(i) The false Shepherds, ch. 23

 Jer 23:1

(j) How to find God

 Jer 29:13

(k) The new covenant

 Jer 31:31-34

(l) The mutilation of God's Word

 Jer 36:21-24

(2) Rejected

(a) By his neighbours

 Jer 11:19-21

(b) By his own family

 Jer 12:6

(c) By the priests and prophets

 Jer 20:1,2

(d) By his friends

 Jer 20:10

(e) By all the people

 Jer 26:8

(f) By the King

 Jer 36:23

(Outline from Thompson’s Chain Reference Bible)

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