ADVENTURES OF JEREMIAH: BIBLE SUMMARY

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Adventures Of Jeremiah

a) One of the great prophets of the time of exile was Jeremiah. After the fall of Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians, only a small remnant of Judah was left in the land. Jeremiah, like most of the prophets, was despised, ignored, persecuted, and abused.

2. Bible Summary (Jeremiah 32-52)

@1. Jeremiah imprisoned (Jeremiah 32).

@2. Jeremiah buys a field although the land is enemy-occupied (Jeremiah 33).

@3. The seed promise repeated (Jeremiah 33).

@4. Zedekiah's death prophesied (Jeremiah 34).

@5. Judah condemned for not freeing her slaves (Jeremiah 34).

@6. The Rechabite's fine example a rebuke to Judah (Jeremiah 35).

@7. Baruch reads Jeremiah's scroll. Jehoiakim cuts and burns it (Jeremiah 36).

@8. Coniah then Zedekiah become kings (Jeremiah 37).

@9. Jeremiah thrown into a cistern (Jeremiah 38).

@10. Jeremiah talks privately with Zedekiah (Jeremiah 38).

@11. The fall of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 39 see also 2 Chronicles 36, 2 Kings 25, Jeremiah 52).

@12. Gedaliah optimally takes charge of remnant left in Judah (Jeremiah 40).

@13. Gedaliah assassinated (Jeremiah 41).

@14. Remnant joined by other refugees flees toward Egypt (Jeremiah 41).

@15. Near Bethlehem, Jeremiah asked to obtain God's counsel (Jeremiah 42).

@16. God says not to go to Egypt but to remain in Judah (Jeremiah 42).

@17. The remnant disobeys and goes to Egypt anyway (Jeremiah 43).

@18. Jeremiah foretells the entry of the Babylonians into Egypt (Jeremiah 43).

@19. Jeremiah condemns the disobedience and idolatry of the remnant in Egypt, and foretells their destruction (Jeremiah 44).

@20. Jeremiah's promise to Baruch (Jeremiah 45).

@21. Prophecy concerning Egypt (Jeremiah 46).

@22. Prophecy concerning nations around Judah (Jeremiah 47-49).

@23. Prophecy concerning Babylon (Jeremiah 50-51).

@24. Further account of the fall of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 52). 

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