(960 BC) …if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. – 2 Chronicles 7:14-15 (NIV)
Ch.19 (Early 600’s BC) (vv.1-2)
Jeremiah 7:16, Jeremiah 11:14, Jeremiah 14:11-12
Jeremiah: whom Jehovah (Yahweh) has appointed (BD&B)
A clay jar when shattered cannot be (vv.1-2)
Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. – Jeremiah 19:1 (NIV)
(Josiah) He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech. – 2 Kings 23:10 (NIV)
God sees John in the womb as a
For behold, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy.
– Luke 1:44 (NASB)
The baby in the womb can express
The baby in the womb can respond to
For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. – Psalms 139:13-16 (NASB)
(vv.6-9) Leviticus 26:29, Deuteronomy 28:53
(v.12) Tophet or Topheth = “a place of fire” (BD&B)
(Ch. 20:1-2)
Stocks: mahpeketh – stocks – a similar instrument of punishment (compelling crooked posture and distorting) (BD&B)
Jeremiah’s Message:
This is what the Lord said to me: “Make a yoke… and put it on your neck. Then send word to the kings…Give… my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon…All nations will serve him … “‘ “If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation…So do not listen to your prophets, ‘” – Jeremiah 27:2-11 (NIV)
(Ch. 28)
(vv.1-4)
Hananiah: “God has favored” (BD&B)
Azzur: (aw-zar’) – to surround, i.e. protect or aid (Strong’s)
“At that time…”Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. – Matthew 24:10-11 (NASB)
(vv.7-9)
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord Almighty: The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your fathers have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the Lord.” – Isaiah 39:5-7 (NIV)
‘But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’
– Deuteronomy 18:20-21 (NASB)