Finally words of love once again from God.
:33 – But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.~Instead of a “Don't do this and you will live” type of covenant.
:34 – And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.~This reminds me of our theme verse for this blog.
Jeremiah 32
:7 – right of redemption =
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1353&t=KJV
:27 – Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?~A newly mentioned attribute of God.
*This chapter contains a legal settlement of a land sale. Biblical real estate deal!
Jeremiah 33:3 – Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
:22 – The Levites minister unto God.
Jeremiah 34:10 – Emancipation of Bible slaves.
:11 – Undone one verse later bringing severe consequences.
Jeremiah 35
2: - Jeremiah is commanded to bring these people into God's house and give them wine! Rechabites = very little mentioned or known place/people
~It looks like God was trying to give a new commandment to this people that were formerly commanded to abstain from wine and planting and building...in other words God was trying to settle them, but they held on to that old commandment.
Jeremiah 36
:6 – upon the fasting day~a corporate day of fasting
~So Baruch had to read all the evil from the Lord sent to rebuke His people. There are times when remembering evil (or negative) is necessary. So it is inappropriate to say “I never dwell on the negative,” when God commands it to be read on a day of fasting to bring repentance, like Isaiah 58 talks about. Hello, preacher.
:28 – a second roll, like Moses' second set of stone tablets.
Jeremiah 37Jeremiah goes to prison.
Jeremiah 38
Ebedmelech is sent to get Jeremiah out of prison after he tells the king Jeremiah will die since there is no more bread in the city.
Jeremiah 39
Babylon attacks Jerusalem...again.
Jeremiah 40
The Jews returned to Judah.
Jeremiah 41
Another Ishmael.
Jeremiah 42
:10 – God says he will repent of the evil He did to them.
:19 – remnant of Judah
Jeremiah 43
You better sojourn where God says... or else!
Jeremiah 44
All this because it was just too hard to obey God.
:26 – God swears by his own name.
Jeremiah 45
:5 – for a prey in all places whither thou goest~O to be the hunter rather than the hunted.
Jeremiah 46
Isn't it so amazing how in KJV language even the most horrid tragedies sound so eloquently beautiful?
:24 – Who is the daughter of Egypt?
Jeremiah 47
scabbard =
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H8593&t=KJV
Jeremiah 48
Woe to Moab
:44 – year of visitation is not always a holy visitation of happy, positive experiences.
Jeremiah 49
:4 – We cannot trust in our treasures.
:9 – would they not leave some gleaning grapes~I love this idea of leaving some extra for the poor, such as when Boaz commanded his workers to leave some for Ruth to glean. No matter the portion of ones' substance, it was commanded to leave some behind. I suppose a modern example would be those who prepare an extra plate for Elijah.
Jeremiah 50
Against Babylon. Finally...someone other than Jews.
:3 – Out of the north again. What is it about the north?
:17 – Israel is referred to as a 'he'
:20 – I will pardon them whom I reserve
Jeremiah 51
:7 – Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken...~I believe kingdoms like this are still in the earth today, spiritually speaking. Love this analogy.
:16 – When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.~In other words, God's voice rocks you like a hurricane.
:46 – rumour =
:48 – Spoilers from the north.
:63 – I wonder if that scroll was ever found? Did it become one of the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Jeremiah 52
(This is actually extending into the next weeks' reading portion, but it's the last chapter and it makes sense to me to keep it together.)
:12 – I have invented my own dating system for these biblical time descriptions:
5–10–19Neb = Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon...
I am happy to see after all the 'woe untos' that the book of Jeremiah has a happy ending-- the king of Judah was released from prison, sat back on a throne higher even that the king-in-power's fellow kings, and got to eat with him his whole life. All this even though the Babylonian king that released him was named Evilmerodach. Lamentations, here we come! I'm going to keep my hopes up for a happy ending, in spite of the name.
