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General Desolation; Jeremiah's Faithful Preaching. (b. c. 607.)
GENERAL DESOLATION; JEREMIAH'S FAITHFUL PREACHING. (B. C. 607.) We have, in these verses, a further description of those terrible desolations which the king of Babylon with his armies should make in all the countries an…
Jeremiah's Solemn Address. (b. c. 608.)
JEREMIAH'S SOLEMN ADDRESS. (B. C. 608.) We have here the sermon that Jeremiah preached, which gave such offence that he was in danger of losing his life for it. It is here left upon record, as it were, by way of appeal…
Jeremiah Prosecuted for His Preaching; Jeremiah's Defence. (b. c. 608.)
JEREMIAH PROSECUTED FOR HIS PREACHING; JEREMIAH'S DEFENCE. (B. C. 608.) One would have hoped that such a sermon as that in the Jeremiah 26:1-6, so plain and practical, so rational and pathetic, and delivered in God's na…
Jeremiah's Acquittal; Jeremiah's Deliverance. (b. c. 608.)
JEREMIAH'S ACQUITTAL; JEREMIAH'S DELIVERANCE. (B. C. 608.) Here is, I. The acquitting of Jeremiah from the charge exhibited against him. He had indeed spoken the words as they were laid in the indictment, but they are n…
Nebuchadnezzar's Victories Predicted. (b. c. 597.)
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S VICTORIES PREDICTED. (B. C. 597.) Some difficulty occurs in the date of this prophecy. This word is said to come to Jeremiah in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 27:1), and yet the messe…
Jeremiah's Counsel to Zedekiah; Submission to Nebuchadnezzar Urged. (b. c. 597.)
JEREMIAH'S COUNSEL TO ZEDEKIAH; SUBMISSION TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR URGED. (B. C. 597.) What was said to all the nations is here with a particular tenderness applied to the nation of the Jews, for whom Jeremiah was sensibly co…
Hananiah's False Prophecy. (b. c. 597.)
HANANIAH'S FALSE PROPHECY. (B. C. 597.) This struggle between a true prophet and a false one is said here to have happened in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, and yet in the fourth year, for the first four years…
Hananiah Condemned. (b. c. 597.)
HANANIAH CONDEMNED. (B. C. 597.) We have here an instance, I. Of the insolence of the false prophet. To complete the affront he designed Jeremiah, he took the yoke from off his neck which he carried as a memorial of wha…
Advice to the Captives in Babylon. (b. c. 596.)
ADVICE TO THE CAPTIVES IN BABYLON. (B. C. 596.) We are here told, I. That Jeremiah wrote to the captives in Babylon, in the name of the Lord. Jeconiah had surrendered himself a prisoner, with the queen his mother, the c…
Advice to the Captives in Babylon. (b. c. 596.)
ADVICE TO THE CAPTIVES IN BABYLON. (B. C. 596.) To make the people quiet and easy in their captivity, I. God takes them off from building upon the false foundation which their pretended prophets laid, Jeremiah 29:8-9. T…
The Doom of the False Prophets. (b. c. 596.)
THE DOOM OF THE FALSE PROPHETS. (B. C. 596.) Jeremiah, having given great encouragement to those among the captives whom he knew to be serious and well-affected, assuring them that God had very kind and favourable inten…
The Malice of Shemaiah; The Doom of Shemaiah. (b. c. 596.)
THE MALICE OF SHEMAIAH; THE DOOM OF SHEMAIAH. (B. C. 596.) We have perused the contents of Jeremiah's letter to the captives in Babylon, who had reason, with a great deal of thanks to God and him, to acknowledge the rec…
Promises of Mercy. (b. c. 594.)
PROMISES OF MERCY. (B. C. 594.) Here, I. Jeremiah is directed to write what God had spoken to him, which perhaps refers to all the foregoing prophecies. He must write them and publish them, in hopes that those who had n…
Promises of Mercy. (b. c. 594.)
PROMISES OF MERCY. (B. C. 594.) In these verses, as in those foregoing, the deplorable case of the Jews in captivity is set forth, but many precious promises are given them that in due time they should be relieved and a…
Promises of Mercy. (b. c. 594.)
PROMISES OF MERCY. (B. C. 594.) We have here further intimations of the favour God had in reserve for them after the days of their calamity were over. It is promised, I. That the city and temple should be rebuilt, Jerem…
Promises to Israel; Joyful Return from Captivity. (b. c. 594.)
PROMISES TO ISRAEL; JOYFUL RETURN FROM CAPTIVITY. (B. C. 594.) God here assures his people, I. That he will again take them into a covenant relation to himself, from which they seemed to be cut off. At the same time, wh…
Restoration of Israel; Promises to Israel. (b. c. 594.)
RESTORATION OF ISRAEL; PROMISES TO ISRAEL. (B. C. 594.) This paragraph is much to the same purport with the last, publishing to the world, as well as to the church, the purposes of God's love concerning his people. This…
Ephraim's Repentance and Privilege; Encouragements to the Captives. (b. c. 594.)
EPHRAIM'S REPENTANCE AND PRIVILEGE; ENCOURAGEMENTS TO THE CAPTIVES. (B. C. 594.) We have here, I. Ephraim's repentance, and return to God. Not only Judah, but Ephraim the ten tribes, shall be restored, and therefore sha…
God's Covenant Renewed. (b. c. 594.)
GOD'S COVENANT RENEWED. (B. C. 594.) The prophet, having found his sleep sweet, made so by the revelations of divine grace, sets himself to sleep again, in hopes of further discoveries, and is not disappointed; for it i…
Evangelical Promises; The Rebuilding of Jerusalem. (b. c. 594.)
EVANGELICAL PROMISES; THE REBUILDING OF JERUSALEM. (B. C. 594.) Glorious things have been spoken in the Jeremiah 31:1-34 concerning the gospel church, which that epocha of the Jewish church that was to commence at the r…
Judgments Predicted; Jeremiah Imprisoned. (b. c. 589.)
JUDGMENTS PREDICTED; JEREMIAH IMPRISONED. (B. C. 589.) It appears by the date of this chapter that we are now coming very nigh to that fatal year which completed the desolations of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans.…
Jeremiah's Prayer. (b. c. 589.)
JEREMIAH'S PRAYER. (B. C. 589.) We have here Jeremiah's prayer to God upon occasion of the discoveries God had made to him of his purposes concerning this nation, to pull it down, and in process of time to build it up a…
Judgments Predicted; Restoration of the Jews; Encouraging Promises. (b. c. 589.)
JUDGMENTS PREDICTED; RESTORATION OF THE JEWS; ENCOURAGING PROMISES. (B. C. 589.) We have here God's answer to Jeremiah's prayer, designed to quiet his mind and make him easy; and it is a full discovery of the purposes o…
Encouraging Prospects. (b. c. 589.)
ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS. (B. C. 589.) Observe here, I. The date of this comfortable prophecy which God entrusted Jeremiah with. It is not exact in the time, only that it was after that in the foregoing chapter, when thing…