Beyond Today Bible Commentary: Jeremiah

Beyond Today Bible Commentary: Jeremiah

The Old Testament mentions nine different people named Jeremiah. The man God used to author this book was a priest and one of Israel's greatest prophets. Because of several biographical narratives in the book of Jeremiah, more is known about Jeremiah than any other prophet.

Table of Contents

Jeremiah 1

9 minutes
Jeremiah's calling and commission

Jeremiah 2

5 minutes
Charges against Israel and Judah

Jeremiah 3:1-4:4

5 minutes
God's wife has committed harlotry, call to repentance

Jeremiah 4:5-31

3 minutes
Warning of Judah's coming invasion, Jeremiah mourns

Jeremiah 5

3 minutes
Reasons for coming judgment

Jeremiah 6

3 minutes
Further warning of impending judgment

Jeremiah 7:1-27

5 minutes
God wants obedience, not just the form of religion

Jeremiah 7:28-8:17

4 minutes
Judgment on abominable religious practices

Jeremiah 8:18-9:26

5 minutes
Punishment for shameless disobedience, Jeremiah laments

Jeremiah 10

7 minutes
Decorated trees, God's people to captivity, fury on the nations

Jeremiah 11:1-17

3 minutes
The covenant broken, Judah cursed

Jeremiah 11:18-12:17

7 minutes
Plot against Jeremiah, his complaint, God's response, further prophecy against Judah, punishment and hope of the gentiles

Jeremiah 13

7 minutes
Signs of the linen waistband and wine jugs, Judah to be carried away captive

Jeremiah 14:1-15:9

5 minutes
Droughts, Sword, famine and pestilence will certainly follow

Jeremiah 15:10-21

3 minutes
Jeremiah's dejection, God's exhortation and reassurance

Jeremiah 16

5 minutes
Jeremiah's lifestyle as witness against Judah, Israel's future return, imminent punishment, nations will come to know God

Jeremiah 17

7 minutes
Judah's sin and punishment, trust in man vs. trust in God, Jeremiah prays for salvation and vindication, honor the Sabbath

Jeremiah 18

5 minutes
Illustration of the potter and clay, call to repentance rejected, plans laid against Jeremiah

Jeremiah 19-20

6 minutes
Sign of the broken flask, Jeremiah beaten and put in stocks, message to Pashhur, Jeremiah's suffering and further dejection

Jeremiah 21 and Related

5 minutes
Zedekiah sends men to Jeremiah to inquire of God, God will destroy Jerusalem by the Babylonians, Zedekiah will be taken

Jeremiah 22:1-23 and Related

1 minute
Judah's coming punishment, death of Josiah, reign of Jehoahaz over Judah, reign of Jehoiakim over Judah, message concerning Shallum (Jehoahaz) and...

Jeremiah 22:24-23:40 and Related

1 minute
Reign of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah-Coniah), message to Coniah, woe to shepherds, branch of righteousness, false prophets

Jeremiah 24:1-10 and Related

1 minute
Nebuchadnezzar besieges Judah, Jeconiah and the nobles carried captive, Zedekiah king of Judah, sign of the fig baskets

Jeremiah 25

6 minutes
Prophecy of 70 years, judgment on the nations

Jeremiah 26

5 minutes
Jeremiah on trial for his life, death of Urijah, Jeremiah spared

Jeremiah 27-28

7 minutes
Symbolic bonds and yokes, false prophet Hananiah

Jeremiah 29

5 minutes
Jeremiah's letter to the captives in Babylon

Jeremiah 30:1-31:26

12 minutes
Jacob's trouble, Israel and Judah freed from captivity and restored

Jeremiah 31:27-40 and Related

15 minutes
New Covenant, prophecy against Elam

Jeremiah 32

6 minutes
Jeremiah buys his cousin's field, the people will return and enter into God's everlasting covenant

Jeremiah 33

8 minutes
Restoration of Israel and Judah, the righteous Branch, the continuity of the Davidic and Levitical family lines

Jeremiah 34:1-7 and Related

1 minute
Zedekiah sends men to Jeremiah to inquire of God, God will destroy Jerusalem by the Babylonians, Zedekiah will be taken

Jeremiah 34:8-22 and Related

1 minute
Zedekiah sends another delegation, the Babylonians break off Jerusalem siege to confront Egyptian troops, Jews reenslave freed slaves, Babylonian army...

Jeremiah 35

4 minutes
Example of the Rechabites

Jeremiah 36:1-7 and Related

8 minutes
Instructions to Baruch, reading of Jeremiah's scroll, King Jehoiakim burns the scroll, the scroll rewritten

Jeremiah 36:8-32 and Related

1 minute
Instructions to Baruch, reading of Jeremiah's scroll, King Jehoiakim burns the scroll, the scroll rewritten

Jeremiah 37:1-10 and Related

5 minutes
Zedekiah sends another delegation, the Babylonians break off Jerusalem siege to confront Egyptian troops, Jews reenslave freed slaves, Babylonian army...

Jeremiah 37:11–38:28

7 minutes
Jeremiah imprisoned in a dungeon, then moved to the prison court, Zedekiah seeks his counsel

Jeremiah 39:1 and Related

1 minute
Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem, parable of the cooking pot, Ezekiel's wife dies

Jeremiah 39:2-7 and Related

1 minute
Fall of Jerusalem, Judah's nobility killed and Zedekiah blinded and taken captive to die in Babylon

Jeremiah 39:8-10 and Related

1 minute
Destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, killing of important officials, final deportations, land to enjoy its Sabbaths

Jeremiah 39:11-40:6 and Related

1 minute
Gedaliah made governor of Judah, Jeremiah freed from prison, message to Ebed-Melech

Jeremiah 40:7-41:18 and Related

1 minute
Governorship of Gedaliah, killed by insurrection

Jeremiah 42-43

6 minutes
God tells the remnant not to flee to Egypt, they flee anyway, taking Jeremiah, Baruch and king's daughters

Jeremiah 44

8 minutes
Jews in Egypt to be punished

Jeremiah 45:1-5 and Related

1 minute
Instructions to Baruch, reading of Jeremiah's scroll, King Jehoiakim burns the scroll, the scroll rewritten

Jeremiah 46:1-12

4 minutes
Defeat of Necho's army at Carchemish and further retreat

Jeremiah 46:13-47:7 and Related

7 minutes
Prophecies against Egypt and Philistia, Babylon quashes Jehoiakim's rebellion, Jehoiakim's death

Jeremiah 48

12 minutes
Prophecy against Moab

Jeremiah 49:1-33

13 minutes
Prophecies against Ammon, Edom, Syria and Arabia

Jeremiah 49:34-39 and Related

1 minute
New Covenant, prophecy against Elam

Jeremiah 50:1-46 and Related

1 minute
Prophecy against Babylon

Jeremiah 51:1-58, 61-64

10 minutes
Prophecy against Babylon continued

Jeremiah 51:59-61 and Related

11 minutes
Prophecy against Babylon

Jeremiah 52:1-3 and Related

1 minute
Nebuchadnezzar besieges Judah, Jeconiah and the nobles carried captive, Zedekiah king of Judah, sign of the fig baskets

Jeremiah 52:3b and Related

1 minute
Zedekiah rebels against Babylon, two harlot sisters, Oholah (Samaria) and Oholibah (Jerusalem), judged

Jeremiah 52:3b and Related

1 minute
Zedekiah rebels against Babylon, two harlot sisters, Oholah (Samaria) and Oholibah (Jerusalem), judged

Jeremiah 52:4 and Related

1 minute
Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem, parable of the cooking pot, Ezekiel's wife dies

Jeremiah 52:5-11 and Related

1 minute
Fall of Jerusalem, Judah's nobility killed and Zedekiah blinded and taken captive to die in Babylon

Jeremiah 52:12-30 and Related

1 minute
Destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, killing of important officials, final deportations, land to enjoy its Sabbaths

Jeremiah 52:31-34 and Related

1 minute
Jeconiah released from prison during the reign of Babylonian ruler Evil-Merodach