Chapter seventeen continues the back-and-forth conversation between God and Jeremiah regarding the coming judgment on Judah. If Jeremiah had any hope that the people would turn from their idolatry, God’s declaration that it was engraved on their hearts crushed it (Jeremiah 17:1-4). Jeremiah 17:5-11 contains a series of proverb-like statements from God regarding people in general, […]
Chapter fifteen begins with a similar statement to Ezekiel 14:14-20. A decade earlier God told Ezekiel that the combined righteousness of Noah, Daniel, and Job could not save a nation God had decided to destroy. Here he told Jeremiah that the combined prayers of Moses and Samuel could not save Judah either (Jeremiah 15:1-4). Specifically
Chapter thirteen contains a physical illustration for Jeremiah. God told him to “buy some linen shorts” (Jeremiah 13:1-7). He was to wear them but not wash them. Then God told him to hide them in a rock crevice at Perath. After a while he retrieved them only to find them destroyed and unusable. The location
