JEREMIAH Reading guide
1 Inaugural
call and vision of impending disaster/punishment
2 Your
youthful loving :5 Apostacy,
Baal worship, social injustice
Note ref to Torah v.8
3-4:2 Return
to Yahh (v.6-13 a separate passage inserted)
4 Circumcize
your hearts before it is too late
Destruction of nature
5 Search
for a just individual!
:23f Disrespectful nation
6 The
coming war/destruction :14 שלום ואין שלום שלום :16 refuse the right path
7 Temple
Sermon Self delusion :16 Don’t pray! :17 Queen(?) of the Sky
8 Disinter
the bones :8 How can you say
you have Torah?
9 Despair
at ubiquity of wickedness
:22 Be no pride in wisdom. . . but in justice
10 Absurdity
of idolatry ~Is. 44:9-20 :22 Bad news from the north
11 Brit
a la Deuteronomy7, 29 :18
Confession, prayer Inform me. . .
12 Confession
Why do the wicked prosper? :7
God’s feelings :14 another chance
for Israel
13 A
buried loincloth :12 Every jug,
filled with wine :17 I weep
inside :22 leopard change
its spots?
14-15:3 Drought :8 Why, God? :11
Don’t pray! :13 Lying
prophets :1 Moshe/Shmuel couldn’t
help now
15 They
for the death, to the death
:10 Confession Woe to me my
mother :20 bronze wall
16 Don’t
marry, children :10 ~Deuteronomy
:16 fishermen and hunters
17 Mostly
not Jer :14 Confession, shame my
pursuers :21 no prophesying on
Shabbat
18 Clay
in potter’s hands :13 Who ever
heard such? :18 Confession,
complaint, plea
19-20:6 Separate passages: v.2-9, 11b-13 Death Valley v.1-2a, 10-20:6
Shattered bottle, Jer arrested
20 :7
Confession, like fire :14
Confession, Cursed be the day I was born
21 God
is on the side of N’vuchadretsar
22-23:6 Do
justice and righteousness, help the victim :10 Weep not for the dead Exile 23:1
Shepherds?
23 Return
from exile :9 Godless prophets
(and priests) :25 Lying prophets
24 2
baskets of figs, one good and one bad Present exiles will be treated well
25 Baruch’s
preface :15-end belong
with ch.46-51 Oracles against the nations
26 Response
to Temple Sermon (ch.7) Trial :18 Reference to Micah 3:11f Note
Deuteronomy, 622
27-28 Diatribe
Against Deluded Prophets
Yoke and fetters message to area kings
29 Letter
to exiles in Babylonia :24
Sh’mayahu responds :30
response to Sh’mayahu
30-31 Hope
for return of Israel (Northern Kingdom) 31:29 Sour grapes :31 New Brit!
Internal
Torah
32 Jer
buys a field at the worst time
33 Comfort,
healing, return of Judah, Jer style but not authorship
34 Seditious
words :1-7, resulting in imprisonment 38:1-13 :8 Reenslavement of freed slaves
35 The
example of the Rechavim, piety, obedience
36 Jer
writings recorded, destroyed, and recorded again
37 1-7
Editor’s well meaning mistake :7b Continuation of 34:22
:17 Secret meeting with king
38 See
34:1-7 (also 21:8-10, 32:1-5) Jer
saved but remains imprisoned :14
Version of secret
meeting
39 Fall
of Jerusalem, fate of king (2Kings 25) Jer released to G’daliah :15 EvedMelech to
survive
40 Legend
1-6
40:7-41:18
G’daliah history (cf 2Kings 25:22-26)
42-43:7 Jer and
Baruch taken to Egypt
43-44 Prophecy
re Egypt 44:7 Message
against exiles :17 Queen(?)
of the Sky
45 Baruch
to survive
46-51 Oracles
against the nations (see 25:15) Egypt, Plylistia, Moab, Ammon, Edom, Damascus,
Arabs, Elam,
Babylon
Hope for Israel
52 Destruction,
death, exile (2Kings 24:18-25:30)
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