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19 Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize. how evil and bitter it is for you. when you forsake the Lord your God. and have no awe of me,”. declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty. 20 “Long ago you broke off your yoke. and tore off your bonds;
Jeremiah 1. New King James Version. Jeremiah Called to Be a Priest. 1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who werein Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, 2 to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son ...
Jeremiah was a skilled poet, rhetorician, and orator, using techniques honed in the ancient Near East long before his time. Many think he could rank with the greatest orators of later Greece and Rome, such as Aristotle and Quintilian. Jehoiachin, the king at the center of the conflict between Jeremiah and Hananiah, was said to have given the ...
Jeremiah was one of the major prophets of the Bible whose life and sayings are collected in the biblical book that bears his name. His prophecies, among the most stark and pessimistic in all of biblical literature, were aimed as a rebuke to Jews who had surrendered to idolatry and depravity. The English word “jeremiad,” which means ...
Mar 24, 2019 · Points of Interest. Jeremiah is the second longest book in the Bible after Psalms and is the only Old Testament book that explains its own origin. Jeremiah is called the "weeping prophet" because his heart broke over Judah's sins. In Hebrew, his name is Yirmeyahu or Yirmeyah, which means "he whom Yahweh will establish or lift up."
Jeremiah was born of a priestly family, in the town of Anatoth in Benjamin. His father was the prophet and High-Priest Hilkiah. He began his prophecy during the time of the prophet Zephaniah and prophetess Huldah, in the thirteenth year of King Josiah 's reign (3298). The destruction of the Northern Kingdom by the Assyrians was still fresh in ...
Mar 12, 2024 · Brief Summary: The Book of Jeremiah is primarily a message of judgment on Judah for rampant idolatry ( Jeremiah 7:30-34; 16:10-13; 22:9; 32:29; 44:2-3 ). After the death of King Josiah, the last righteous king, the nation of Judah had almost completely abandoned God and His commandments. Jeremiah compares Judah to a prostitute ( Jeremiah 2:20 ...
