"YAHWEH'S JUSTICE FOREWARNED AND EXPERIENCED: THE FALL OF JERUSALEM"

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1 Analysis of JEREMIAH "YAHWEH'S JUSTICE FOREWARNED AND EXPERIENCED: THE FALL OF JERUSALEM" "Then the LORD said to me, 'Out of the north the evil will break forth on all the inhabitants of the land. For, behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north,' declares the Lord; 'and they will come, and they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls around about, and against all the cities of Judah. And I will pronounce My judgments [JTB-justice] on them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.'" Jeremiah 1:14-16 Analysis of JEREMIAH Prepared by James T. Bartsch November, 1995 WordExplain.com P. O. Box 527 Cottonwood Falls, Kansas Contact: jbartsch@wordexplain.com Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE, Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (

2 JEREMIAH "GOD'S JUSTICE FOREWARNED AND EXPERIENCED: THE FALL OF JERUSALEM" "Then the LORD said to me, 'Out of the north the evil will break forth on all the inhabitants of the land. For, behold, I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north,' declares the Lord; 'and they will come, and they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls around about, and against all the cities of Judah. And I will pronounce My judgments [JTB-justice] on them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.'" Jeremiah 1:14-16 A1 PROPHECIES AND EVENTS BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM 1-38 B1 Jeremiah's Call as a Prophet 1 C1 The introduction to the book 1:1-3 D1 The background of the prophet 1:1 D2 The chronology of the prophecies 1:2-3 C2 The call of Jeremiah 1:4-10 C3 The reiteration of the call 1:11-19 D1 The assurance of fulfillment 1:11-12 D2 The certainty of judgment from the north 1:13-16 D3 The command and empowerment to speak judgment to Judah amid opposition 1:17-19 B2 General Prophecies to Judah and Jerusalem 2-20 C1 Yahweh's shock at Israel's promiscuous idolatry 2:1-3:5 D1 Israel's former love 2:1-3 D2 Yahweh's hurt at Israel's forsaking Him 2:4-8 D3 Yahweh's shock at Israel s idolatry 2:9-13 1

3 2 D4 Yahweh's linking of invasions to punishment 2:14-19 D5 Israel's animal-like promiscuity in idolatry 2:20-25 D6 Israel's shame and hypocrisy in judgment for idolatry 2:26-28 D7 Israel's pursuit of sin amidst discipline 2:29-37 D8 Yahweh's reluctance to take back violated Israel 3:1-5 C2 The promised judgment of war from the north because of Judah's idolatry and unrighteousness 3:6-6:30 D1 The call to salvation for both Israel and Judah 3:6-4:4 Adulterous Judah's failure to learn from Israel's Assyrian deportation because of idolatry 3:6-11 Yahweh's call to Israel to repent 3:12-14 E4 Yahweh's promise of national restoration and prominence (ultimately millennial) 3:15-18 Yahweh's disappointed desire to set Israel among His sons 3:19-20 E5 Israel's weeping because of her faithless idolatry 3:21-25 E6 Yahweh's appeal for a clean-hearted return 4:1-4 Yahweh's urging for a complete return to Him 4:1-2 F2 Yahweh's urging Judah to circumcise their hearts 4:3-4 D2 Yahweh's plans for judgment: War from the north 4:5-13 Yahweh's alarming plans to bring evil from the north 4:5-9 Jeremiah's complaint that Yahweh has deceived Judah into planning for peace when war is coming 4:10 Yahweh's relentless insistence on judgment 4:11-13

4 3 D3 Jeremiah's anguish 4:14-31 Jeremiah's appeal to repent because of advancing besiegers 4:14-18 Jeremiah's anguish at war's devastation 4:19-22 Jeremiah's shock at the devastation of the land (Note: Short-term = Babylon; Long-term = Tribulation) 4:23-26 E4 Yahweh's withholding of complete destruction 4:27-31 D4 The reasons for judgment 5 The absence of any righteous 5:1-3 The disobedience of the wealthy great as well as the poor 5:4-6 Yahweh's justification in not pardoning Judah 5:7-9 Their forsaking Him 5:7 F2 Their swearing by those not God 5:7 F3 Their adultery 5:7-8 F4 Yahweh's determination to judge 5:9 E4 The judgment to be rendered 5:10-19 F2 F3 The command to destroy God's fruitless vineyard 5:10-13 Yahweh's command to bring a far-off nation against Judah 5:14-17 Yahweh's judgment of serving strangers in a foreign land 5:18-19 E5 Judah's insistence on exceeding Divine boundaries 5:20-29 E6 The horror of false prophets and self-appointed priests loved by the people 5:30-31

5 4 D5 The certainty of judgment 6 The inevitable approach of war to Jerusalem 6:1-8 The warning to flee 6:1-2 F2 The invaders' strategy 6:3-5 F3 Yahweh's commanding of a siege 6:6 F4 Yahweh's reason for punishment: ever-present violence and destruction 6:7-8 The thoroughness of judgment 6:9-12 The catalog of sins as bringing judgment 6:13-21 Greed for money 6:13a F2 Corrupt business by even prophet and priest 6:13b F3 Religious leaders' glossing over the hurt and sin of the people 6:14 F4 The peoples' lack of shame for their evil 6:15 F5 Refusal to walk in the good way 6:16 F6 Refusal to heed the warning of war 6:17-19a F7 Failure to listen to Yahweh 6:19b F8 Rejection of Yahweh's Law 6:19c F9 Unacceptable offerings 6:20 0 Yahweh's determination to lay a stumbling block in their paths 6:21

6 5 E4 The advance description of the invasion 6:22-26 The origin of the invaders--from the north 6:22 F2 The cruelty of the invaders 6:23 F3 The anguish of the Hebrews 6:24-26 E5 The assessment of the nation: corrupt, impure, rejected 6:27-30 C3 Jeremiah's "Temple Address" to Judah 7:1-10:25 D1 Temple worship cannot outweigh national evil 7:1-8:3 Yahweh's order to Judah to amend their ways to dwell in the land 7:1-3 Justice, not "temple talk," the needed ingredient to keep Israel in the land 7:4-7 Yahweh's shock: that Judah commits adultery, idolatry and robbery, then dares come to the temple 7:8-11 E4 The inability of the temple to save Jerusalem 7:12-15 E5 E6 Yahweh's command to Jeremiah not to intercede for Judah 7:16-20 Israel's past and present history of disobedience and stubborn 7:21-28 E7 The lamentation over Yahweh's rejection of Israel 7:29 E8 Judah's consequences because of her evil in defiling Yahweh's house and making child sacrifices 7:30-8:3 D2 The grief at Judah's judgment for deceitful departure from Yahweh 8:4-9:26 Judah's faults in turning from God 8:4-12 Persistence in evil by the general populace 8:4-7 G1 Failure to repent 8:4 G2 Continual apostasy 8:5a

7 6 G3 Continual deceit 8:5b G4 Continual speaking that which is not right 8:6a G5 Failure to repent of wickedness 8:6b G6 Ignorance of Yahweh's ordinance 8:7 F2 The failure of the leaders 8:8-12 G1 G2 G3 G4 G5 The scribes' deceitful interpretations of the Law 8:8 The foolishness of the "wise" in rejecting Yahweh's Word 8:9 The deceitful greediness of prophet and priest 8:10 The prophets' and priests' soothing glossing over Judah's damaging spiritual illness 8:11 The leaders' lack of shame over their own evil 8:12 Jeremiah's panic at Yahweh's pronouncement of judgment 8:13-17 F2 F3 Yahweh's intention to disperse Judah as completely as a stripped vine or fig tree 8:13 Jeremiah's panicky call to retreat to fortified cities and await death from the mounted Babylonian cavalry approaching from Dan 8:14-16 Yahweh's declaration of sending Judah poisonous snakes having no antidote 8:17 Jeremiah's grief 8:18-9:2 F2 Jeremiah's sorrow and faint-heartedness at the anticipated cry of idolatrous Judah far away in exile 8:18-19a Yahweh's counter that Judah has provoked Him with idols 8:19b

8 7 F3 Jeremiah's brokenness over the sickness of Judah 8:20-22 F4 Jeremiah's weeping for the slain of his people 9:1 F5 Jeremiah's desire to disassociate himself from Judah for their adultery and treachery 9:2 E4 Yahweh's response 9:3-26 F2 F3 F4 F5 His charging Judah with deceitfully ignoring Him 9:3-6 His determination to refine and avenge Himself of His deceitful, hypocritical people 9:7-9 His weeping for the destruction of Judean vegetation and animals 9:10 His intention to desolate Jerusalem and other Judean cities 9:11 His justification for the devastation of the land: Judah's forsaking of His Law and following after Baals 9:12-16 F6 His call for mourning 9:17-22 G1 For mourners to bewail the ruin of Judah 9:17-19 G2 For women to bewail death 9:20-22 F7 His perspective on human achievement and religion 9:23-26 G1 G2 The call to boast in knowing Yahweh and righteousness rather than in human ability or achievement 9:23-24 His intention to punish all nations (including Judah) not circumcised in the heart 9:25-26

9 8 D3 Yahweh's superiority to idols 10 Yahweh's warning to Israel not to make and fear idols 10:1-5 The contrast between Yahweh and idols 10:6-16 F2 F3 Yahweh's sovereign power in contrast with the impotence of hand-made idols 10:6-10 The decay of gods in contrast to the universe creating God! 10:11-13 The fraudulence of idols compared to the power of the Creator! 10:14-16 The punishment for idolatry 10:17-25 F2 The warning to Judah to prepare for travel into exile 10:17-18 Jeremiah's emotional reaction to Judah's coming exile 10:19-25 G1 The graphic description 10:19-22 G2 The plea to God 10:23-25 C4 The issue of the broken Covenant D1 The curses attached to Judah's idolatrous breaking of the Covenant 11:1-17 E4 Yahweh's reminder of the curses attached to breaking the Mosaic Covenant 11:1-5 Yahweh's announcement that Judah's breaking the Covenant has brought on the curses 11:6-8 Judah's conspiracy in breaking the covenant by serving other gods 11:9-13 Yahweh's pronouncement of evil upon Israel and Judah for their idolatry 11:14-17

10 9 D2 Jeremiah's struggle with the results of wickedness 11:18-12:6 His struggle with the plots against his life 11:18-23 His indignation with the prosperity of the wicked 12:1-4 Yahweh's wonderment at Jeremiah's inability to withstand existing persecution when it will only grow worse in the future 12:5-6 D3 Yahweh's judgment against evil 12:7-17 His delivering of Israel to Babylon's sword 12:7-13 His judgment against neighbor nations 12:14-17 C5 The signs of the judgment of Judah's wickedness 13 D1 The symbol of the ruined waistband 13:1-11 D2 The symbol of the smashed wine skins 13:12-14 D3 The warning to forsake arrogance and glorify God 13:15-17 D4 A lament over the humiliation of King Jehoiachin and Queen Mother by virtue of Judah's exile 13:18-19 D5 The approach of punishing armies from the north 13:20-24 D6 Yahweh's expose' of Jerusalem's adulteries 13:25-27 C6 The exchange between Yahweh and Jeremiah D1 In regard to the drought 14:1-15:9 The prediction of the judgmental drought 14:1-6 Jeremiah's intercession for Judah 14:7-22 Jeremiah's plea for God not to forsake Judah despite her sins 14:7-9 F2 Yahweh's rejection of Jeremiah s plea 14:10-12

11 10 F3 F4 Yahweh's determination to kill the false prophets and the people for prophesying safety 14:13-38 Jeremiah's plea to Yahweh to remember His Covenant compassion toward Judah 14:19-22 Yahweh's intense feelings against Judah 15:1-9 F2 F3 His unmoved determination to send Judah away from His presence 15:1-4 His bitterness at Jerusalem for having forsaken Him 15:5-6 His determination to strew the land with bereaved mothers and widows 15:7-9 D2 In regard to Jeremiah's safety 15:10-21 E4 Jeremiah's bemoaning of his birth because all curse him 15:10-11 Yahweh's determination to plunder Judah by a force from the north 15:12-14 Jeremiah's plea to Yahweh to avenge and protect him because of his truthful but persecuted prophesying 15:15-18 Yahweh's promise to defend Jeremiah if he chooses to return and represent Yahweh to the people 15:19-21 C7 A series of messages from Yahweh on Judgment D1 Certain judgment tempered by future restoration 16:1-17:18 Jeremiah's restrictions symbolizing judgment on Judah 16:1-9 F2 Yahweh's forbidding Jeremiah to marry or have children because families will die 16:1-4 Yahweh's forbidding Jeremiah to mourn or feast because Yahweh has withdrawn compassion and joy 16:5-9

12 11 The reasons for Yahweh s judgment: idolatry and evil 16:10-13 Yahweh's promise of future spiritual well-being 16:14-21 Judah's restoration after punishment 16:14-18 F2 The nations' future recognition of Yahweh 16:19-21 E4 Yahweh's viewpoint on idolatry 17:1-11 F2 The deeply ingrained fact of Judah's idolatry: captivity inevitable 17:1-4 The cursedness of those who rely on man; the blessedness of those who rely on Yahweh 17:5-8 F3 Yahweh's testing of man's deceitful heart 17:9-11 E5 Jeremiah's appeal to Yahweh to vindicate his service amid persecution 17:12-18 D2 Blessing or judgment with regard to sabbath observance 17:19-27 Yahweh's command not to work on the sabbath 17:19-23 The consequences of keeping the sabbath holy: a succession of Davidic kings in Jerusalem 17:24-26 The consequences of violating the sabbath: fire to devour Jerusalem's palaces 17:27 D3 Yahweh's sovereign intention to judge Judah 18 The pottery illustration of God's sovereignty 18:1-6 The sovereignty policy applied generally to the nations 18:7-10 The sovereignty policy applied to Judah and Jerusalem: Idolatry brings certain judgment 18:11-17

13 12 E4 Reactions 18:18-23 F2 The peoples' rebellious reaction against Jeremiah 18:18 Jeremiah's judgmental reaction against them 18:19-23 D4 Jeremiah's Tophet and Temple Messages and their result E4 E5 Jeremiah's message of slaughter in Judah and Jerusalem (given at Tophet) 19:1-9 The sign of the broken jar: Yahweh to break Judah and Jerusalem as one would break an earthenware jar 19:10-13 Jeremiah's prophecy in the temple: Yahweh's intention of imminent disaster 19:14-15 Pashur the priest's beating and imprisonment of Jeremiah 20:1-3a Jeremiah's response 20:3b-18 F2 F3 His prophecy of the destruction of Judah, Jerusalem and Pashur; the deportation to Babylon 20:3b-6 His feeling that he has been misused by God because of the peoples' negative reactions to his messages 20:7-10 His reaffirmation of faith in Yahweh's vindication of himself and vengeance against his persecutors 20:11-13 F4 His cursing of his birth 20:14-18

14 13 B3 Prophecies and Events Relating to Specific Groups and Individuals C1 Messages to Kings 21:l - 23:8 D1 The message to Zedekiah 21:1-22:9 Zedekiah's asking Yahweh to defeat the Babylonian army besieging Jerusalem 21:1-2 Yahweh's reply 21:3-22:9 Prediction: death, disease and captivity await the city and the king 21:3-7 F2 Counsel to the city: Surrender! 21:8-10 F3 F4 Counsel to the king: administer justice to avert wrath! 21:11-12 Promise: The destruction of the obscure places of Judah as well as Jerusalem 21:13-14 F5 Plea to the king: A call for justice 22:1-5 F6 Prediction to the king: The destruction of Zedekiah's line because of idolatry 22:6-9 D2 D3 D4 The message concerning Jehoahaz: The call to weep for his irreversible disappearance from Judah 22:10-12 The message to Jehoiakim: His oppression as king results in his unmourned death 22:13-19 The message to Jeconiah: Yahweh's curse that none of Coniah's descendants would sit on David's throne 22:20-30 D5 Yahweh's disposition of Israeli royalty 23:1-8 His successful replacement of Israel's destructive shepherds 23:1-4 His raising up of a just Davidic king restoring Israel from the north (The Messiah!) 23:5-8

15 14 C2 The message concerning prophets 23:9-32 D1 Introduction to the diatribe against the prophets 23:9-12 D2 The diatribe against the prophets of Samaria and Judah 23:13-15 D3 The charge to the people not to listen to unauthorized prophets 23:16-22 D4 Yahweh's anger against false prophets 23:23-32 His incredulity that they think they are unobserved 23:23-24 Their deception to cause people to forget Yahweh 23:25-28 The authority of Yahweh's word 23:29 E4 Yahweh's fierce opposition to false prophets 23:30-32 C3 The oracle of Yahweh: Abandonment of Judah! 23:33-40 C4 The vision concerning the exiles and the remnant: the good and bad figs (597 B. C.) 24 D1 The vision of good and bad figs 24:1-3 D2 Yahweh's promise to bless good figs -- Jewish exiles in Babylon 24 :4-7 D3 Yahweh's promise to abandon the bad figs 24:8-10 C5 The Word to Jeremiah regarding all Judah and the entire earth (605 B.C.) 25 D1 Judah's 71-year Babylonian exile as punishment for idolatry 25:1-11 D2 Babylon's punishment after the 70 years 25:12-14 D3 D4 The list of surrounding nations prescribed to drink the wine cup of Yahweh's wrath (the sword) 25:15-26 The non-exemption of any nation from wrath 25:27-29 (Note: Short-term = Babylon; Long-term = Tribulation)

16 15 D5 D6 Yahweh's rage against all the earth's inhabitants (The Tribulation) 25:30-31 The mourning of the shepherds (rulers) because of Yahweh's judgment against them 25:32-38 C6 The message to the temple-worshipers and the result 26 D1 The message in the temple to Judah to repent to avert judgment 26:1-6 D2 The angry reaction against Jeremiah 26:7-24 The murderous anger against Jeremiah because of his message 26:7-9 Jeremiah's death sentence from the priests and prophets 26:10-15 Jeremiah's reprieve from death by the officials and people 26:16-24 C7 The sign of the yokes and bonds: The message to Judah and the surrounding nations (Submit and live!) 27 D1 D2 D3 The message to surrounding nations: submit to Nebuchadnezzar and live 27:1-11 The message to Zedekiah: submit to Nebuchadnezzar and live 27:12-15 The message to Judah's priests and people: Serve Nebuchadnezzar and avoid death and the total desecration of the temple 27:16-22 C8 The confrontation between Jeremiah and the false prophet Hananiah 28 D1 Hananiah's false prophecy of Jewish return from exile in two years 28:1-4 D2 Jeremiah's response of disagreement 28:5-9 D3 Hananiah's contradiction by breaking Jeremiah's yoke 28:10-11 D4 Jeremiah s repudiation of Hananiah by successfully predicting his death within a year 28:12-17

17 16 C9 The message to the Jews in captivity 29 D1 The details concerning the letter 29:1-3 D2 The instruction to settle down in Babylon and seek its welfare 29:4-7 D3 The warning to ignore false prophets 29:8-9 D4 D5 The communication of Yahweh's good plans to restore people to Judah after the seventy years 29:10-14 The warning of Yahweh's determination to trouble the survivors in Judea 29:15-20 D6 The judgments against false prophets 29:21-32 Against Ahab and Zedekiah 29:21-23 Against Shemaiah the Nehelamite 29:24-32 C10 The message to Judah and Israel: Future restoration despite present judgment D1 The promise of restoration 30-31:30 The promise of the restoration 30:1-3 The terribleness of the tribulation 30:4-7a The restoration to service 30:7b-9 E4 The promised return from the nations 30:10-11 E5 The healing of incurable wounds 30:12-17 E6 The promise of Yahweh to restore Israel 30:18-22 E7 The fierce anger of Yahweh in the latter days 30:23-24 E8 E9 Yahweh's promised restoration of all the families of Israel 31:1-6 The emotional return from the north and all parts of earth of even Israel's handicapped and disadvantaged 31:7-9

18 The urging of the nations to hear that Yahweh will redeem Israel from enemy domination and fill him with bounty and joy 31:10-14 The comfort offered to those weeping over departing exiles: Yahweh hears and will mercifully restore Ephraim 31:15-20 The promised restoration: Virgin Israel will one day court Jesus the Messiah (Millennial) 31:21-22 Jeremiah's relief at Yahweh's promised restoration of Judah and its cities 31:23-26 The coming of days when Yahweh will watch over Israel and Judah to establish, not destroy, holding each accountable for his own sin 31:27-30 D2 The New Covenant guaranteeing restoration 31:31-40 Yahweh's promise of a New Covenant which He will establish with the houses of Israel and Judah 31:31-34 The certainty of Israel's continuance as Yahweh's nation under the New Covenant 31:35-37 Yahweh's promised permanent restoration and sanctification of Jerusalem 31:38-40 D3 The real estate transactions guaranteeing restoration 32 E4 Jeremiah's imprisonment for predicting Israeli defeat by Babylon and for counseling surrender 32:1-5 Jeremiah's redemption of family real estate as proof of future restoration 32:6-15 Jeremiah's protest to God at purchasing land when the besieging Chaldeans were about to enter Jerusalem 32:16-25 Yahweh's review of Judah and Israel's evil warranting the invasion 32:26-35

19 18 E5 Yahweh's promise of restoration and real estate transactions based on His everlasting covenant to turn Israel's heart back to Him so He can do good to them 32:36-44 D4 The specifics of restoration 33:1-13 Yahweh's promised restoration of Judah and Jerusalem after Chaldean conquering 33:1-9 Restored sounds in the restoration 33:10-11 Promised pastoral scenes in the restoration 33:12-13 D5 Prior covenants guaranteeing restoration 33:14-26 The promised righteous and peaceful prevalence of a Davidic Messiah and Aaronic priesthood in the restoration 33:14-18 The sureness of the Davidic Covenant and Levitical Priest Covenant: As certain as Yahweh's day and night covenant! 33:19-22 The sureness of Yahweh's choice of Jacob as a people and David as a dynasty 33:23-26 C11 The message to King Zedekiah: Yahweh's response -- Jerusalem to be burned; Zedekiah to be captured 34:1-7 C12 The message to the hypocritical slave-owners of Judah 34:8-22 D1 D2 D3 The historical background: The emancipation of slaves to avert invasion reneged on after the passing of danger 34:8-11 The reminder of the sabbatical release of slaves as required in the Law 34:12-15 The judgment on the nation: the death of the slave-owners, the capture of the national leaders, the destruction and desolation of the cities 34:16-22

20 19 C13 The message to Judah and Jerusalem concerning the Rechabites 35 D1 D2 The Rechabites' refusal to take wine from Jeremiah in deference to their forefathers' instructions 35:1-11 Yahweh's judgment on Judah for not obeying God as had the Rechabites their father 35:12-17 D3 Yahweh's commendation of the Rechabites 35:18-19 C14 The Account of King Jehoiakim's destruction of the written Word of God 36 D1 Yahweh's instructions to Jeremiah to write down his Prophecies to Judah and Israel 36:1-3 D2 Baruch's reading the dictated prophecies in the temple 36:4-10 D3 D4 D5 The king's officials' fearful response to the reading of Jeremiah's prophecies 36:11-19 The king's burning of the scroll and futile attempt to seize Jeremiah and Baruch 36:20-26 Jeremiah's re-writing of the scroll including judgment on Jehoiakim 36:27-32 C15 The account of Jeremiah's dealings with Zedekiah risking liberty and life D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 Zedekiah's inquiry of Jeremiah following his request to Egypt for assistance 37:1-5 Jeremiah's response to Zedekiah: The Egyptians will retreat; the Chaldeans will return and burn 37:6-10 Jeremiah's arrest and imprisonment under false charges of desertion to the Chaldeans 37:11-16 Zedekiah's easing of Jeremiah's imprisonment conditions after inquiring of him 37:17-21 The officials' consignment of Jeremiah to death in a cistern 38:1-6

21 20 D6 Ebed-melech's rescue of Jeremiah from the cistern 38:7-13 D7 Zedekiah's secret inquiry of Jeremiah 38:14-16 D8 D9 Jeremiah's reply that to defect is to save one's life; to stay in Jerusalem is to lose it 38:17-23 Zedekiah's secretive removal of Jeremiah to the guardhouse for the duration of the siege 38:24-28 A2 THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND THE FATE OF THE REMNANT B1 The Fall of Jerusalem 39:1-10 B2 Freedom Accorded Jeremiah 39:11-40:6 C1 Nebuchadnezzar's allowing Jeremiah to stay with Gedaliah and the people 39:11-14 C2 Jeremiah 's message of deliverance to Ebed-melech 39:15-18 C3 Jeremiah's return from (the staging point of) Ramah to Gedaliah 40:1-6 B3 The Return of Jewish Guerrillas and Refugees from Moab, Ammon and Edom 40:7-12 B4 Ishmael's Coup 40:13-41:15 C1 Johanan's informing Gedaliah of Ishmael's plot to assassinate him 40:13-16 C2 Ishmael's assassination of Gedaliah 41:1-3 C3 Ishmael's deportation of the Mizpah remnant to Ammon 41:4-10 C4 Johanan's rescue of Ishmael's prisoners 41:11-15 B5 The Remnant's Egyptian Connection 41:16-44:30 C1 The debate over seeking refuge from Babylon in Egypt 41:16-42:22 D1 Johanan's preparation to lead the remnant to Egypt 41:l6-18 D2 The frightened remnant's request for Divine direction 42:1-6 D3 Yahweh's reply: Stay in Israel and be blessed; flee to Egypt and meet death 42:7-18 D4 Jeremiah's urging the remnant to stay in Judah 42:19-22

22 21 C2 The remnant's stay in Egypt D1 The remnant's departure to Egypt 43:1-7 D2 Yahweh's communication to the remnant in Egypt 43:8-44:14 Yahweh's message to the remnant in Egypt: Nebuchadnezzar would invade Egypt and capture and kill Jewish people 43:8-13 Yahweh's querying the Egyptian Jews regarding their idolatry 44:1-10 Yahweh's threat to destroy the Jewish remnant 44:11-14 D3 The remnant's insistence on worshiping the queen of heaven to reachieve financial prosperity 44:15-19 D4 Jeremiah's prophecy of the Egyptian remnant's demise 44:20-30 B6 Yahweh's Prodding and Comfort of Baruch 45 A3 PROPHECIES AGAINST SURROUNDING NATIONS B1 Against Egypt 46 C1 Egypt's defeat by Babylon 46:1-12 C2 Egyptian warriors' stumbling before the Babylonians 46:13-24 C3 Yahweh's punishment of Egyptian gods and rulers 46:25-26 C4 The safety and security of Jacob 46:27-28 B2 Against Philistia 47 B3 Against Moab 48 C1 The destruction of Moab 48:1-10 C2 The disruption caused by the invasion 48:11-20 C3 The judgment on Moab's cities 48:21-24 C4 The reason for judgment: Moab's arrogance toward Yahweh and scorn toward Israel 48:25-29 C5 Yahweh's sorrow over His destruction of idolatrous Moab 48:30-35

23 22 C6 Moab's national shock over his destruction 48:36-44 C7 Woe to captured Moab; latter day restoration by Yahweh 48:45-47 B4 Against Ammon: Yahweh's punishment and future restoration of Ammon 49:1-6 B5 Against Edom 49:7-22 C1 Yahweh's destruction of Edom 49:7-13 C2 Edom's false security in his cliff dwellings 49:14-19 C3 Yahweh's plan to have Edom dragged off 49:20-22 B6 Against Damascus 49:23-27 C1 Her panic at war 49:23-24 C2 The death of her soldiers and the sacking of the city 49:25-27 B7 Against Kedur and Hazor 49:28-33 B8 Against Elam 49:34-39 C1 Yahweh's decimation and scattering of Elam 49:34-38 C2 Yahweh's restoration of Elam 49:39 B9 Against Babylon C1 The capture of Babylon and defeat of Bel and Marduk 50:1-3 C2 The lamenting return of Israel and Judah to seek Yahweh 50:4-5 C3 The release of Yahweh's people when Babylon is plundered 50:6-10 C4 C5 C6 C7 Yahweh's call for vengeance on Babylon because of his jubilant persecution of Judah 50:11-16 Yahweh to punish Babylon for breaking Israel's bones; Israel to return and no iniquity to be found in him 50:17-20 Yahweh's rising up in vengeance against Babylon for engaging in conflict with Yahweh 50:21-28 Yahweh's summoning many against Babylon for her arrogance against Him 50:29-32

24 23 C8 Yahweh, Redeemer of Israel and Judah, declares a sword on Babylon 50:33-40 C9 Babylon's cruel northern assailants to achieve a shocking overthrow 50:41-46 C10 Yahweh to arouse a destroyer of Babylon's army 51:1-4 C11 Hebrew captives urged to flee God's vengeance on Babylon by returning home 51:5-10 C12 Yahweh's prediction of the Medes' overthrow of Babylon 51:11-14 C13 C14 Yahweh's sovereign power in creating and operating the earth and in choosing Jacob as His inheritance 51:15-19 Yahweh's "war club" shatters all society ["War club" refers to Jacob in the Millennium.] 51:20-23 C15 Yahweh to repay with eternal destruction for her evil in Zion 51:24-26 C16 The summons to the Medes and the nations to destroy Babylon 51:27-33 C17 Yahweh's vengeance against Babylon: utter desolation 51:34-40 C18 The horror of ruined Babylon and punished Bel 51:41-44 C19 C20 Yahweh's urging His people to flee the applauded destruction coming on Babylon 51:45-48 The assurance of Babylon's fall as bringing shame that foreigners desecrated Yahweh's house 51:49-51 C21 Yahweh's resolve to punish Babylon's idols 51:52-53 C22 King Yahweh's destruction of Babylon's leaders and wall 51:54-58 C23 Jeremiah's message about Babylon's destruction as given to Seraiah to read in Babylon 51:59-64 A4 HISTORICAL FULFILLMENT: THE FALL OF JERUSALEM 52 B1 The Capture of the City 52:1-11 C1 The siege 52:1-6 C2 The capture of Zedekiah and his escaping troops 52:7-9 C3 The execution of all royal and noble blood 52:10 C4 The blinding and deportation to Babylon of Zedekiah 52:11

25 24 B2 Nebuchadnezzar's Burning and Razing of the City 52:12-14 B3 Nebuchadnezzar's Deportation of All But the Poorest to Babylon 52:15-16 B4 The Chaldeans' Pillaging of the Temple Furnishings 52:17-23 B5 The Execution of Certain Judean Officials at Riblah 52:24-27 B6 B7 An Account of the Deportations of 4600 Jewish People (in Nebuchadnezzar's 7th, 18th and 23rd years) 52:28-30 Evil Merodach's Kindness to Jehoiachin: His releasing him from prison in the 37th year of his exile and allowing him to eat at the king's table 52:31-34 Analysis of JEREMIAH Prepared by James T. Bartsch November, 1995 WordExplain.com P. O. Box 527 Cottonwood Falls, Kansas Contact: Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE, Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (