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• Jeremiah 34

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 34 is a 22-verse chapter containing an oracle delivered to King Zedekiah while the Babylonian army besieged Jerusalem, together with a declaration of judgment against the people of Judah, who made a covenant to release their Hebrew servants and then reversed it.

• Jeremiah 52

  [Bible]

  The final chapter of the Book of Jeremiah records the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon under Zedekiah, the burning of the temple, the number of captives taken in three deportations, and the release of King Jehoiachin from prison in Babylon.

• Jeremiah 45

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 45 is a brief oracle addressed to Baruch, who was writing down Jeremiah's words in the fourth year of Jehoiakim. Responding to Baruch's lament, God tells him not to seek great things for himself and promises to preserve his life wherever he goes.

• Jeremiah 43

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 43 records how Johanan and the remnant of Judah rejected Jeremiah's warning as false and went down to Tahpanhes in Egypt, taking Jeremiah and Baruch with them. There Jeremiah buried large stones as a symbolic act, prophesying that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, would invade Egypt.

• Jeremiah 38

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 38 recounts how, near the end of the siege of Jerusalem, the princes cast Jeremiah into a miry cistern, Ebed-melech the Cushite rescues him, and King Zedekiah secretly summons him and hears the word urging him to surrender.

• Jeremiah 49

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 49 is part of the oracles against the nations. It proclaims judgment on Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar and Hazor, and Elam, and it also promises future restoration to Ammon and Elam.

• Jeremiah 47

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 47 is a prophecy of judgment against the Philistines. Using the images of waters overflowing from the north and the unresting "sword of the LORD," it announces the destruction of Gaza and Ashkelon.

• Jeremiah 42

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 42 is the chapter in which the people left in Judah after the assassination of Gedaliah ask Jeremiah to seek the LORD's direction for them. God promises to protect them if they remain in the land of Judah, and He warns that if they go to Egypt, they will die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

• Jeremiah 51

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 51 continues the prophecy of chapter 50 announcing the fall of Babylon. At the close of the chapter, Jeremiah gives Seraiah a book containing these words and instructs him to read it in Babylon and then cast it into the Euphrates River.

• Jeremiah 46

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 46 opens the oracles against the nations (chapters 46–51). It portrays the Egyptian army's defeat by Babylon at Carchemish and Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Egypt, and it closes with a promise of comfort to Jacob.

• Jeremiah 50

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 50 is a prophecy that Babylon, which overthrew Judah, will be destroyed by a nation from the north, and that the scattered people of Israel and Judah will return and receive pardon for their sins.

• Jeremiah (of Libnah)

  [People]

  Jeremiah of Libnah was the father of Hamutal, the wife of King Josiah of Judah, and the maternal grandfather of Kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah. He is a different person from the prophet Jeremiah, who bore the same name.

• Letter of Jeremiah

  [Bible]

  The Letter of Jeremiah is a short work presented as a letter from Jeremiah to the Judean captives being carried off to Babylon, warning them against idolatry. The Catholic and Orthodox churches include it in the Bible, while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha.

• Lamentations

  [Bible]

  Lamentations is a book of the Old Testament that collects five laments, poems of grief mourning the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Babylonians.

• Enoch

  [People]

  Enoch is an antediluvian figure who appears in the genealogy of Genesis 5. The seventh generation from Adam and the father of Methuselah, he is recorded as having walked with God and as having been taken by God without seeing death.

• Hamutal

  [People]

  Hamutal was the wife of King Josiah of Judah and the mother of Kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah. She is identified as the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, and her name appears in the Bible only in the accession records of her two sons.

• New Covenant

  [Bible]

  The new covenant is the covenant that God promised in Jeremiah 31:31-34 to make with Israel. The New Testament teaches that this promise was established through the death of Jesus Christ.

• Kim Chi-sun

  [People]

  Kim Chi-sun (1899–1968) was a Korean Presbyterian minister and Old Testament scholar. Shortly after Korea's liberation in 1945, as senior pastor of Namdaemun Church in Seoul, he led the Three Million Revival Movement. He also founded Daehan Theological Seminary (now Anyang University). He is known as "the Jeremiah of Korea."

• Baruch

  [People]

  Baruch was the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah in the final years of the southern kingdom of Judah. He wrote on a scroll the prophecies Jeremiah dictated and read them aloud to the people in the temple.

• Daniel 9:1-3

  [Bible Verses]

  In this passage Daniel reads Jeremiah's prophecy of the "seventy years" and resolves to seek God with fasting and prayer. It is often cited as a model of moving from the reading of Scripture to prayer, and it raises questions about the identity of Darius and how the seventy years should be reckoned.