Jeremiah, The Book of
JEREMIAH, THE BOOK OF
In the chronological order of its several predictions and divine messages, is somewhat difficult of arrangement; but may be divide, by a natural and sufficiently accurate method, in to four general sections, containing severally the prophecies uttered in the reigns of Josiah, Jehoiakim, Zedekiah, and Gedaliah. The last chapter of the book appears to have been added, perhaps by Ezra; it is taken almost verbatim from 2Ki 24:18-20 25:1-30. See Jer 51:64 .Jeremiah wrote also the book of LAMENTATIONS, in which he utters the most plaintive and pathetic sentiments over the calamities of his people. See LAMENTATIONS.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Jeremiah, The Book of
(See JEREMIAH.).
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Jeremiah, The Book of
Jeremi’ah, The Book of. “There can be little doubt that the book of Jeremiah grew out of the roll which Baruch wrote down at the prophet’s mouth in the fourth year of Jehoiakim. Jer 36:2. Apparently the prophets kept written records of their predictions, and collected into larger volumes such of them as were intended for permanent use.” — Canon Cook. In the present order, we have two great divisions: —
I. Chapters 1-45. Prophecies delivered at various times, directed mainly to Judah, or connected with Jeremiah’s personal history.
II. Chapters 46-51. Prophecies connected with other nations. Looking more closely into each of these divisions, we have the following sections:
1. Chapters 1-21, including prophecies from the thirteenth year of Josiah to the fourth of Jehoiakim; Chapter 21; belongs to the later period.
2. Chapters 22-25. Shorter prophecies, delivered at different times, against the kings of Judah and the false prophets. Jer 25:13-14 evidently marks the conclusion of a series of prophecies; and that which follows, Jer 25:15-38, the germ of the fuller predictions in chapters 46-49, has been placed here as a kind of completion to the prophecy of the seventy years and the subsequent fall of Babylon.
3. Chapters 26-28. The two great prophecies of the fall of Jerusalem, and the history connected with them.
4. Chapters 29-31. The message of comfort for the exiles in Babylon.
5. Chapters 32-44. The history of the last two years before the capture of Jerusalem, and of Jeremiah’s work in them and in the period that followed.
6. Chapters 46-51. The prophecies against foreign nations, ending with the great prediction against Babylon.
7. The supplementary narrative of chapter 52.