Category: History - Ancient

Expositor's Bible: The Book of Jeremiah, Chapters XXI.-LII.

In the present stage of investigation of Old Testament Chronology, absolute accuracy cannot be claimed for such a table as the following. Hardly any, if any, of these dates are supported by a general consensus of opinion. On the other hand, the range of variation is, for the m...

Chapters

50. CHAPTER VIII

The captivity of Jehoiachin and the deportation of the flower of the people marked the opening of the last scene in the tragedy of Judah and of a new period in the ministry of J...

43. CHAPTER II

"When Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, say...

55. CHAPTER XII

"When the Chaldean army was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin" to transact certain family...

77. CHAPTER XXXII

In his prophecies of restoration, Jeremiah continually couples together Judah and Israel.[392] Israel, it is true, often stands for the whole elect nation, and is so used by Jer...

44. CHAPTER III

The incidents which form so large a proportion of the contents of our book do not make up a connected narrative; they are merely a series of detached pictures: we can only conje...

51. CHAPTER IX

The most conspicuous point at issue between Jeremiah and his opponents was political rather than ecclesiastical. Jeremiah was anxious that Zedekiah should keep faith with Nebuch...

49. CHAPTER VII

"A young lion. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion and he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men."--EZEK. xix. 5, 6.

48. xxxvi. 30, 31, was evoked by the destruction of the roll, and we may

fairly assume that xxii. 13-19 was also delivered after that incident. The immediate context of the latter paragraph throws no light on the date of its origin. Chapter xxii. is...

56. CHAPTER XIII

"Then arose Ishmael ben Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote with the sword and slew Gedaliah ben Ahikam ben Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon had made king...

72. CHAPTER XXIX

We have seen, in the two previous chapters, that the moral and religious state of Judah not only excluded any hope of further progress towards the realisation of the Kingdom of...

70. CHAPTER XXVII

Prophets and preachers have taken the Israelites for God's helots, as if the Chosen People had been made drunk with the cup of the Lord's indignation, in order that they might b...

71. CHAPTER XXVIII

The previous chapter has been intentionally confined, as far as possible, to Jeremiah's teaching upon the moral condition of Judah. Religion, in the narrower sense, was kept in...

58. CHAPTER XV

"Since we left off burning incense and offering libations to the Queen of Heaven, we have been in want of everything, and have been consumed by the sword and the famine."--JER....

78. CHAPTER XXXIII

The religious history of Israel in the Old Testament has for its epochs a series of covenants: Jehovah declared His gracious purposes towards His people, and made known the cond...

75. CHAPTER XXXI

The Divine utterances in chapter xxxiii. were given to Jeremiah when he was shut up in the "court of the guard" during the last days of the siege. It may, however, have been com...

45. CHAPTER IV

This incident is dated "in the days of Jehoiakim." We learn from verse 11 that it happened at a time when the open country of Judah was threatened by the advance of Nebuchadnezz...

57. CHAPTER XIV

Thus within a few days Jeremiah had experienced one of those sudden and extreme changes of fortune which are as common in his career as in a sensational novel. Yesterday the gui...

73. CHAPTER XXX

When Jeremiah was first called to his prophetic mission, after the charge "to pluck up and to break down, and to destroy and to overthrow," there were added--almost as if they w...

60. CHAPTER XVII

The kings of Egypt with whom Jeremiah was contemporary--Psammetichus II., Pharaoh Necho, and Pharaoh Hophra--belonged to the twenty-sixth dynasty. When growing distress at home...

54. xxxiv. This section has the direct and personal note which characterises

the dealings of Hebrew prophets with their sovereigns. Doubtless the partisans of Egypt had had a severe struggle with Jeremiah before they captured the ear of the Jewish king,...

52. CHAPTER X

Nothing further is said about the proposed revolt, so that Jeremiah's vigorous protest seems to have been successful. In any case, unless irrevocable steps had been taken, the e...

46. CHAPTER V

The editors of the versions and of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament have assigned a separate chapter to this short utterance concerning Baruch; thus paying an unconscious tr...

59. CHAPTER XVI

As the son of a king only learns very gradually that his father's authority and activity extend beyond the family and the household, so Israel in its childhood thought of Jehova...

79. CHAPTER XXXIV

In reviewing these chapters we must be careful not to suppose that Jeremiah knew all that would ultimately result from his teaching. When he declared that the conditions of the...

62. CHAPTER XIX

The prophets show a very keen interest in Moab. With the exception of the very short Book of Joel, all the prophets who deal in detail with foreign nations devote sections to Mo...

42. CHAPTER I

As the prophecies of Jeremiah are not arranged in the order in which they were delivered, there is no absolute chronological division between the first twenty chapters and those...

80. CHAPTER XXXV

"Jesus ... asked His disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of Man is? And they said, Some say John the Baptist; some, Elijah: and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophe...

68. CHAPTER XXV

These chapters present phenomena analogous to those of Isaiah xl.-lxvi., and have been very commonly ascribed to an author writing at Babylon towards the close of the Exile, or...

64. CHAPTER XXI

The prophecy concerning Edom is not formulated along the same line as those which deal with the twin children of Lot, Moab and Ammon. Edom was not merely the cousin, but the bro...

53. CHAPTER XI

In our previous chapter we saw that, at the point where the fragmentary record of the abortive conspiracy in the fourth year of Zedekiah came to an abrupt conclusion, Jeremiah s...

61. CHAPTER XVIII

According to the title placed at the head of this prophecy, it was uttered "before Pharaoh smote Gaza." The Pharaoh is evidently Pharaoh Necho, and this capture of Gaza was one...

66. CHAPTER XXIII

From an immemorial seat of human culture, an "eternal city" which antedates Rome by centuries, if not millenniums, we turn to those Arab tribes whose national life and habits we...

69. CHAPTER XXVI

In this third book an attempt is made to present a general view of Jeremiah's teaching on the subject with which he was most preoccupied--the political and religious fortunes of...

67. xlix. 34-39

We do not know what principle or absence of principle determined the arrangement of these prophecies; but, in any case, these studies in ancient geography and politics present a...

65. CHAPTER XXII

We are a little surprised to meet with a prophecy of Jeremiah concerning Damascus and the palaces of Benhadad. The names carry our minds back for more than a couple of centuries...

7. lii. 172

In the present stage of investigation of Old Testament Chronology, absolute accuracy cannot be claimed for such a table as the following. Hardly any, if any, of these dates are...

74. xxvi. 11, where we are told that when Hannibal was encamped three

Both at Rome and at Jerusalem the sale of land was a symbol that the control of the land would remain with or return to its original inhabitants. The symbol recognised that acce...

47. CHAPTER VI

Our last four chapters have been occupied with the history of Jeremiah during the reign of Jehoiakim, and therefore necessarily with the relations of the prophet to the king and...

63. CHAPTER XX

The relations of Israel with Ammon were similar but less intimate than they were with his twin-brother Moab. Hence this prophecy is, _mutatis mutandis_, an abridgment of that co...

76. xxiii. 5, 6; here Jerusalem and not its king is called Jehovah

C̦idqenu, possibly because the addition was made when there was no visible prospect of the restoration of the Davidic dynasty. Verse 17 is based on the original promise in 2 Sam...

13. CHAPTER VI

41. CHAPTER XXXV

"Jesus ... asked His disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of Man is? And they said, Some say John the Baptist; some, Elijah: and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophe...

26. CHAPTER XIX

14. CHAPTER VII

"A young lion. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion and he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men."--EZEK. xix. 5, 6

9. CHAPTER II

"When Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, say...

15. CHAPTER VIII

20. CHAPTER XIII

"Then arose Ishmael ben Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote with the sword and slew Gedaliah ben Ahikam ben Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon had made king...

38. CHAPTER XXXI

22. CHAPTER XV

"Since we left off burning incense and offering libations to the Queen of Heaven, we have been in want of everything, and have been consumed by the sword and the famine."--xliv. 18

24. CHAPTER XVII

18. CHAPTER XI

35. CHAPTER XXVIII

36. CHAPTER XXIX

8. CHAPTER I

25. CHAPTER XVIII

39. CHAPTER XXXII

27. CHAPTER XX

40. CHAPTER XXXIII

10. CHAPTER III

16. CHAPTER IX

17. CHAPTER X

21. CHAPTER XIV

29. CHAPTER XXII

5. xxxiv. 141

11. CHAPTER IV

30. CHAPTER XXIII

33. CHAPTER XXVI

3. xxv. 5 297

2. xxiii. 3-8 319

28. CHAPTER XXI

31. CHAPTER XXIV

34. CHAPTER XXVII

19. xxxix. 15-18 155

32. CHAPTER XXV

23. CHAPTER XVI

12. CHAPTER V

37. CHAPTER XXX

1. xxii. 1-9 295

4. xxix. 131

6. xlix. 1-6 242