Jeremiah Bible Study

Jeremiah Bible Study

Jeremiah Before we begin with Jeremiah, I want to give a bit of the background of the Scriptures up to Jeremiah. We have the book of Genesis which is the book of beginnings when the world was created, when man was made, when sin entered the world for the first time, when the first murder occurred, etc. Genesis also includes the stories of Noah, the spread of the Nations (Tower of Babel), Abraham, Esau, Jacob and his twelve sons (which is the beginning of the Israelites), which includes the life of Joseph. Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy describe the life of Moses; how God delivered the Israelites from the Egyptians; and we also find the law. Because of the Israelites disobedience to God they wandered in the dessert for 40 years. The book of Joshua describes in detail, God giving the Promised Land and how the lands were divided into the twelve tribes. After being brought into the Promised Land, we have the book of Judges where the people again and again rejected the Lord as King. We have Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon, Abimelech, Tola, Jair, Jeppthah, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon, and then Samson as judge. The people were without a king and they did their own thing. The book of Ruth gives us a family situation that occurred during the time of the Judges. It is a story of selfless love and redemption. 1 and 2 Samuel gives us the life of the prophet Samuel, the kingship of Saul, and then the kingship of David. 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles tells us about the Kings until they are taken into exile. The ministries of Elijah and Elisha are mainly in Kings but also referred to in Chronicles. Jeremiah begins his ministry in the 13 th year of King Josiah and continues until they are put into exile. (See sheet that includes the chronology of the Kings.) The book of Jeremiah is not written in chronological order. But I think it is extremely important to understand the times that Jeremiah worked. So I would like you to read 2 Kings 23 to the end and 2 Chronicles 34 to the end. Jeremiah was the writer of the book Jeremiah and he was most likely the writer of Lamentations. The Scriptures do not talk about the death of Jeremiah but from Jewish tradition it was believed that Jeremiah was stoned to death while in Egypt. The book of Jeremiah shows me the heart of God in a clear and beautiful way. I have thoroughly enjoyed this book and I pray that you will also.

Israel 930 to 910 Jeroboam 1 910 to 908 Nadab 909 to 836 Baasha 886 to 884 Elah 885 to 884 Zimri 885 to 884 Tibni 885 to 872 Omri 874 to 853 Ahab Elijah 853 to 852 Ahaziah 852 to 841 Joram 841 to 813 Jehu Elisha 814 to 798 Jehoahaz 798 to 781 Jehoash 781 to 753 Jeoboam II 753 to 752 Zecariah 752 Shallum 752 to 741 Menahem 741 to 739 Pekahiah 740 to 731 Pekah 732 to 722 Hoshea 722 the fall of Samaria Judah 930 to 913 Rehoboam 913 to 910 Abijam 910 to 869 Asa 870 to 848 Jehoshaphat 848 to 841 Jehoram 841 Ahaziah 841 to 835 Athaziah 835 to 796 Joash 796 to 767 Amaziah 767 to 739 Azariah (Uzziah) 740 to 732 Jotham 732 to 716 Ahaz 716 to 686 Hezekiah 686 to 641 Manasseh 641 to 639 Amon 639 to 609 Josiah Jeremiah 609 Jehoahaz 609 to 597 Jehoiakim Daniel taken to Babylon 597 Jehoiachin 597 Jerusalem taken by Nebuchadnezzar 597 to 587 Zedekiah 587 Fall of Jerusalem and more Jews went into Exile

Jeremiah Introduction Please read Jeremiah 1:1-3 1. According to verse one, what was Jeremiah? 2. When did the word of the Lord come to Jeremiah and it continued until when? 3. Please read 2 Kings 23 to the end and 2 Chronicles 34 to the end and write a brief summary about each of these Kings.

Lesson 1: Jeremiah 1:4-19 Read Jeremiah 1:4-10 1. The Lord spoke to Jeremiah and wanted to encourage him. In verse 5 what three I statements did God give? How would these statements encourage you if you were in Jeremiah s place? 2. Jeremiah had some self-doubt. What two things was he worried about? 3. Even though Jeremiah was concerned about these things, God still told him that he must go to everyone God sends him to and say the words the God gives him. Why did God tell Jeremiah that he shouldn t be afraid? 4. Youth and inexperience shouldn t stop us from doing what God has called us to do. God will give us what we need when we need it. What does 1 Timothy 4:12 state about being young? 5. Where did God touch Jeremiah and why doesn t Jeremiah need to worry about his speaking abilities? (Jeremiah 1:9) 6. According to verse 10, what is Jeremiah appointed to do? Make a list of negative things and positive things? What do these mean? Why do you think it is important to do both of these things? Read Jeremiah 1:11-12

7. What does Jeremiah see and what is God doing? Read Jeremiah 1:13-16 8. Why is God pronouncing judgment on His people (Judah)? Read Jeremiah 1:17-19 9. What did God tell Jeremiah to do? 10. What has God made Jeremiah into? These descriptions of Jeremiah, help us to see Jeremiah as what? 11. Why did God need to make Jeremiah like this? 12. In verse 19, God again encourages Jeremiah with what? 13. What do you think of the verses in chapter 1? How has God spoken to you through them?

Lesson 2: Jeremiah 2 3:5 Read Jeremiah 2 through 3:5. 1. On a separate sheet of paper create three columns. In the first column write down all the ways the people went away from God, on the second column write all of the positive ways God tried to bring the people close to Him, and on the third column write the negative things that were necessary for God to bring the people to Himself. 2. During the time of the Exodus, what was Israel like towards the Lord? (v. 2-3) 3. What question did God ask in v. 5? I think this is a good question for us to ask ourselves and to meditate on. If this question was asked of you, what would you say? 4. In verse 8, what three groups are mentioned and what did they do? 5. Verse 11 is so sad. What did the people do and what does this mean? 6. What did God think about this? (v. 12) 7. They forsook the living water for what? (v. 13) 8. According to verse 19 what happens when you forsake the Lord and have no awe of Him?

9. What did the people do to try to wash away their guilt and did it work? (v. 22) 10. When they called for God to come and save them, why did God not save them? (v. 27-29) 11. Why will Judah not be helped by Egypt or Assyria? (v. 36-37) 12. How were the people trying to manipulate God? (3:4, 5)

Lesson 3: Jeremiah 3:6-6:30 Read Jeremiah 3:6-4:4 1. Explain the story of the two sisters. (v. 6-11) 2. What does God tell Isreal to do and what does He say He will do, if they do this? (v.3:12-4:2) 3. What did God tell them to do and what do you think this means? (4:3-4) Read Jeremiah 4:5-31. 4. What will happen to the people if the do not do what God tells them to? (vs. 5-17) 5. What did Jeremiah think about his people? (18-26)

6. God promised that he would not do what? (27) 7. How will their lovers treat them now? (30-31) Read Jeremiah 5 8. Do you think the people deserved God s punishment? Why? 9. God promises that He will not do what? What does this tell you about God? (4:27; 5:10; 5:18) Read Jeremiah 6 10. Jeremiah tried to warn the people so that they would repent and this disaster wouldn t have to happen. Jeremiah gave them God s words, but what did the people think of those words? (v. 10) 11. God promises them rest for their souls and for them to listen to the trumpet, but what do they do instead? (vs. 16-17) 12. The people were hardened rebels, they were supposed to be refined, but instead they kept to their wickedness. Since they rejected God, what did God finally do? (v. 27-30).

Lesson 4: Jeremiah 7 10 Read Jeremiah 7-8:3 1. The people falsely thought they were safe because of what? (v. 4, 9-11) 2. What did God have to say about this? 3. God would allow them to live in the land, if they did what? (v. 3-7) 4. Who are the people really hurting? Have you found this to be true in your own life? (v. 6, 19) 5. God has done what for the people? (v. 13, 28) 6. What part of God s wrath would scare you the most if you didn t belong to God? (7:9-8:3) Read Jeremiah 8:4-10:25 7. Instead of doing what God wanted, which would be for their best, they chose to do what? (8:6) Is their anything you are struggling with right now that you would rather go your own way than God s way? What do you need to do about this? 8. How were the leaders treating the sin of the people? (8:11) How do we do the same thing?

9. What would the people do when God s judgment began? (8:14-17) 10. Jeremiah knows that the people deserve the fate they are getting, but it still breaks his heart. What name does Jeremiah give God? How does Jeremiah s reaction to the punishment, show us how we should react? (8:18-9:2) 11. Why should we beware of those who refuse to acknowledge God? (9:3-6) 12. A horrible punishment will happen because the people refused to obey God and to go their own way. There will be tons of mourning and death will be everywhere. When this happens men should not boast in what and should boast in what? (9:23-24) 13. God does what and delights in doing what? (9:24) 14. Compare idols to God. (10:1-16) 15. In Jeremiah s prayer, he acknowledges what and asks for what? (10:23-25)

Lesson 5: Jeremiah 11 14:18 Read Jeremiah 11:1-17 1. What did God tell them to do and if they obeyed what would their reward be? (v. 4-5) 2. God warned them again and again, but what did they do? (v. 8, 10, 13) 3. What is God going to do because of their sinfulness? (v.11, 14, 17) Read Jeremiah 11:18-12:17 4. Jeremiah was giving the people the Words of God. How did they respond and how did Jeremiah find out about it? (v.11:18-23) 5. What was Jeremiah having a hard time understanding about God s justice? (12:1-4) 6. How does God answer? (12:5-13) 7. What does God say about the Gentile nations? (12:14-17) Read Jeremiah 13 8. What did God tell Jeremiah to do? (v. 1-5)

9. When Jeremiah went back to get the belt what did he find? (v. 6-7) 10. What does the example show and what will happen? (v. 8-11, 14) 11. Jeremiah pleads for the people to do what? (v. 15-16) 12. If the people do not do this, what will Jeremiah do? (v. 17) 13. What will happen to them? (v. 18-21, 26-27) 14. Why will this happen to them? (v. 22, 25) Read Jeremiah 14:1-18 15. There was a terrible drought, what did the people do? (v. 7-9) 16. How does God respond? (v.10-12) 17. The other prophets were prophesying peace, what did God say about this? (v. 13-16) 18. Even though the prophet s prophesy peace, what can be seen all around? (v. 18)

Lesson 6: Jeremiah 14:19-17:18 Read Jeremiah 14:19 15:9 1. When things were going badly for them, what did they do? (v. 14:19-22) 2. What does God say they are destined for? (v. 2) 3. Why does God say he can no longer show compassion? (v. 6-7) Read Jeremiah 15:10-21 4. What is Jeremiah going through and what does God tell him? (v. 10-12) 5. Jeremiah is going through a hard time. In verses 15-18 Jeremiah tells God about his self-pity and doubts. God tells Jeremiah to repent. When we take our eyes off of who God is and focus on ourselves, we will be full of self-pity and will begin to doubt God. We need to repent and then to focus on God and what He has called us to do. God told Jeremiah that if he repented God would do what for him? (v. 19-21) Read Jeremiah 16:1-9 6. God tells Jeremiah he can t do three things. What are these three things and why? Read Jeremiah 16:10-17:18 7. Even though destruction will happen, God will do what? (v.15)

8. Even though God would restore them in the future, what will happen now? (v.16-18) 9. When Jeremiah prayed to God he said that God was what to him? (v. 19) 10. What does God say in verse 21? 11. Is it God s fault that the people lose their inheritance? (17:4) 12. Explain the difference between the man in Jeremiah 15:5-6 and the man in 15:7-8. 13. The Lord is able to understand what and know what? (v. 10) 14. Write down every positive thing stated about God in verses 13-18. 15. What is God to you? Praise God for all that He is to you.

Lesson 7: Jeremiah 17:19-20:18 1. Read Jeremiah 17:19-27, what was the command God was giving? 2. Read Exodus 31:13-17, why did God have the people not work on the Sabbath? 3. Jer. 18:1-4, what did Jeremiah see the potter do? 4. Jer. 18:5-12, the potter and the clay illustrates what between God and His people? 5. Jer. 18:13-17, what do you think is the worst thing the Israelites did and what do you think was the worst punishment they received? 6. Jer. 18:18-23, what had Jeremiah done and how did the people treat him? 7. Jer. 19:1-15, God is going to smash Israel just like the clay jar is smashed by Jeremiah. Do you think God was right in doing this? 8. Jer. 20:1-6, What did Pashhur do to Jeremiah for speaking God s words, and what did God say he would do to Pashhur?

9. Jer. 20:7-8, Jeremiah opens his heart up to God. What are some of the things Jeremiah is dealing with? 10. Jer. 20:9-10, even though all these horrible things are happening to Jeremiah, is he able to stop proclaiming the word of God? 11. Jer. 20:11, even though everything has been taken from Jeremiah, what does He still have? 12. Jer. 20:12-13, even though Jeremiah is going through things we can t even compare to, what is he still able to do? 13. Jer. 20:14-18, Jeremiah confesses that he wishes he was never born. Why? 14. We can learn so much from Jeremiah. Just from Jer. 20:7-18, I have learned: To go to God with my complaints, I don t need fancy words to tell Him what we are going through. To be honest with Him. To know God s word and to love His word so much that I am unable to keep them to myself, indeed I must not. When everyone is against me for doing what is God s Will, to still know that God is with me and He is a mighty warrior. To sing His praises when I am going through the worst of circumstances. To bear myself, my thoughts, my emotions to the one who created me. What have you learned from this passage?

Lesson 8: Jeremiah 21:1-23:8 1. Jer. 21:1-2, what did King Zedekiah ask for? 2. Jer. 21:3-7, what was God answer to Zedekiah? 3. Jer. 21:8-10, God tells them a way for life and a way to death, what are they? 4. Jer. 21:11-14, why is God punishing them? 5. Jer. 22:1-7, God says he will destroy the palace unless the King does what? 6. Jer. 22:8-10, who will be able to answer the question, why has God done this? 7. Jer. 22:11-12, what message did God give to Shallum? 8. Jer. 22:13-23, what message did God give to Jehioakim? (Summarize) 9. Jer. 22:24-30, what message did God give to Jehioachin, son of Jehioakim?

10. Jer. 23:1-4, after God punishes the kings for doing a terrible job of shepherding His flock, what will God do? 11. Jer. 23:5-8, part of this prophecy has already occurred because Jesus is the righteous Branch, The Lord Our Righteousness ; what is still to come? Let s look at a few verses that show us Jesus is the righteous Branch of David and is The Lord Our Righteousness. 12. Matthew 1:1, Jesus genealogy includes who?. 13. Matthew 2:2, what do the Magi call Jesus? 14. Romans 3:21-22, where does righteousness from God come from? 15. In 1 Corinthians 1:30, Jesus is called our what? 16. What is still to happen?

Lesson 9: Jeremiah 23:9-25:38 Jeremiah 23:9-15 1. What kind of people were the false prophets? Jeremiah 23:16-23 2. If the false prophets had been from God, what would be different? Jeremiah 23:24-32 3. Are these false prophets beneficial to the people? 4. Where is God? (V.23-24) 5. The false prophet s words had no power; God s words are like what? (V.29) Jeremiah 23:33-40 6. What was the true oracle of God? (V.33) 7. What will be the punishment to those who continue to prophesy lies? (V.39)

Jeremiah 24:1-10 8. The good figs stood for whom? What would God do for them? 9. The bad figs stood for whom? What would God do for them? Jeremiah 25:1-14 10. Jeremiah had told them again and again the word of God, but they did not listen. How many years did Jeremiah do this? (V.3) 11. What did God s prophets tell them to do? (V. 4-6) 12. The people did not listen. They would be punished. After 70 years, who also would be punished? (V.12) Jeremiah 25:15-29 13. Who is God bringing disaster upon? (V. 28-29) Jeremiah 25:30-38 14. What animal is God shown as in these verses? Why do you think this is a good description of God?

Lesson 10: Jeremiah 26-29 Jeremiah 26 The message that Jeremiah is talking about is probably the message in chapters 7-10. In those chapters we are able to know what the message was, in chapter 26 we get to see what the response to God s message was. 1. What was the purpose of Jeremiah s message? (V.3-5) 2. What did the people want to do to Jeremiah? (V. 6-11) 3. How did Jeremiah defend himself? (V. 12-15) 4. What did the officials decide? What example did the elders use? (V.16-19) 5. Who was Uriah and what happened to him? (V. 20-23) Jeremiah 27:1-22 6. What countries did God tell Jeremiah to prophesy to? (V.3) 7. What did God tell these countries to do? (V.8, 11) If they did do this what would happen and if they didn t what would happen?

8. What message was given to King Zedekiah? (V. 12) 9. Who are the priests to serve? (V. 17) What will happen to the things that are in the house of the Lord? (V.22) Jeremiah 28:1-17 10. What was Hananiah prophesying? 11. What happened to Hananiah and why? Jeremiah 29:1-23 12. Jeremiah wrote a letter to the exiles, what did he tell them to do? (V.4-10) 13. What will happen in 70 years? (V.11-14) 14. What did God tell them about the prophets who are there with them in exile? (V.15-23) 15. What will happen to Shemaiah and why? 16. Write down Jeremiah 29:11 and then call upon the Lord as in verse 12 and 13.

Lesson 11: Jeremiah 30-33:13 Jeremiah 30 1. Why did God punish the Israelites? V. 11 V. 14 2. What did God promise He would do for the Israelites? (V.3, V. 3 V. 8 V. 10 V. 16 V. 17 V. 18 V. 19 3. What happens when we devote ourselves to God? (V.21-22) 4. Does Jeremiah 30:24 encourage you or discourage you? Why? Jeremiah 31 5. Have you found V. 3 to be true for you? How has God shown you His love? 6. What will the people be doing when God brings them back? (V. 9) 7. How will God watch over them? (V. 10) What does that mean to you? 8. With one word, what will the people be when they are redeemed? (V.11-14)

9. What did Ephraim realize? (V. 18-19) 10. How does V. 20 show the great love of God? 11. What will God do for the weary and the faint? (V. 25) 12. According to verse 35, what does God do? Jeremiah 32 13. Why was Jeremiah confined in the court yard of the royal palace? (V. 1-5) 14. What did God tell Jeremiah to buy and what did this stand for? (V.6-15) 15. After reading Jeremiah 32:17-44 what impressed you most about God? Jeremiah 33 16. What happens when we call to God? (V. 3) 17. When God is done punishing the people, what will He do? (V. 6-13)

Read Jeremiah 33:14-25 1. What promise did God make? Lesson 12: Jeremiah 33:14-36 2. God would only fully reject Jacob s and David s descendants, if what happened? (V. 20, 25) Is this possible? Jeremiah 34-36 Previously Jeremiah was giving the people hope of what the future will be like. In chapters 34-45 Jeremiah describes what their present situation is like. The people had rejected God and were now getting the judgment they deserved. Jeremiah 34 3. What did God say would happen to Zedekiah? (V. 1-7) 4. What happened to the slaves? (V.8-11) 5. What did God think about this? What was their punishment? (V. 12-22) Jeremiah 35 6. Why was God pleased with the Recabites and displeased with the Israelites?

7. How is God blessing the Recabites? (V. 19) Jeremiah 36 8. What did God tell Jeremiah to do? Why? (V. 1-3) 9. What did Baruch do and how did the people respond? (V. 4-19) 10. Did King Jehoiakim hear the words of God? What did he do with them? (V. 20-26) 11. Then what did God tell Jeremiah to do? (V. 27-32)

Lesson 13: Jeremiah 37-38 Read Jeremiah 37:1-10 1. What did Zedekiah ask Jeremiah to do? (V. 3) 2. What message did God give to Jeremiah to tell Zedekiah? (V.6-10) Read Jeremiah 37:11-21 3. What did Jeremiah go to do and what happened to him? (V.12-16) 4. How did Jeremiah get out of that dungeon? (V. 17-21) Read Jeremiah 38:1-13 5. What was God telling Jeremiah to tell the people? (V.2-3) 6. What did the men do to Jeremiah? (V. 4-6) 7. Did everyone hate Jeremiah and think he should die? (V. 7-13)

Read Jeremiah 38:14-28 8. What does Jeremiah tell Zedekiah to do? (V. 9. In these verses how does God show His mercy to King Zedekiah and to Jerusalem? 10. How does this encourage you? 11. Think of all the things that poor Jeremiah went through. What do you think about this?

Lesson 14: Jeremiah 39-40:6 Read Jeremiah 39:1-18 1. What happened to King Zedekiah and Jerusalem? (V.1-9) 2. Who was left in Judah and what were they to do? (V.10) 3. What was King Nebuchadnezzar s orders in regards to Jeremiah, what do you think about this? (V. 11-14) 4. Who was Ebed-Melech? (Jer. 38:7-10) 5. What is God going to do for Ebed-Melech and why? (V.16-18) Read Jeremiah 40:1-6 6. What incredible thing does the imperial of the guard, Nebuzaradan say? (V.2-5) 7. Where does Jeremiah end up going to? (V. 6)

Lesson 15: Jeremiah 40:7 43:13 1. Read Jeremiah 40:7-41:15 and write a brief summary of what happens. 2. Read Jeremiah 41:16-18, where was Johanan taking the survivors and why? 3. Read Jeremiah 42:1-6, what did they ask Jeremiah to do and what did they say they would do? 4. Read Jeremiah 42:7-12, where did God tell them go and if they obeyed, what would be their reward? 5. Read Jeremiah 42:13-22, if the people disobeyed God, what would be their reward? 6. Read Jeremiah 43:1-7, what did they call Jeremiah and what did the leaders do?

7. Read Jeremiah 43:8-13. God told Jeremiah to take some stones and bury them at the entrance of Pharaoh s palace, why? The following are just questions to ponder. 8. If the Jews had obeyed God, do you think Nebuchadnezzar still would have attacked Egypt? 9. When God s people sin, who does it hurt? 10. Jeremiah 43:11, shows us what about God? 11. We each have a destiny. We are destined for something. Write down everything that you know you are destined for. What is your destiny?

Lesson 16: Jeremiah 44-45 1. Read Jeremiah 44:1-6, why is Judah and Jerusalem in ruins? 2. Read Jeremiah 44:7-10, who are the Jews now worshipping? 3. Read Jeremiah 44:11-14, who will live through the disaster God will bring? Read Jeremiah 44:15-29 4. Were the people willing to listen the message of God? (v. 16) 5. When they had plenty of food, who did they give the credit to? (v. 16-18) 6. Why did they think they were being punished now? (v.16-18) 7. What was the real reason why they were going through such hard times? (v. 20-23) 8. The people were told to go ahead and worship the other gods since that was their adamant decision. How was God going to deal with them? (v. 24-28) 9. God even gives them a sign to show that He is the true God, what will the sign be?

Read Jeremiah 45:1-5. Remember that Baruch dictated the words on the scroll that God had given to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 36:1-8). 10. How was Baruch feeling? (v. 3) 11. How did God respond to Baruch? (v. 4) 12. Baruch was seeking great things for who? (v. 5) 13. How did God show compassion to Baruch? (v. 5) 14. Are there times when you think you know what is best? Do you question God s decisions? 15. How do you know that God is right?

Lesson: 17 Jeremiah 46-48 Jeremiah 2 through 45 has been discussing the prophecies of the nation of Judah, now Jeremiah 46-51 discusses the prophecies of other nations. Read Jeremiah 46:1-12 1. Pharaoh Neco was the same King who had killed King Josiah (2 Kings 23:29). God sarcastically told them to do what? (v. 3-4) 2. But what happens? (v. 5-6) 3. Egypt says, I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy cities and their people. (v. 8) But the day of battle belongs to who? What will the outcome be? (v. 9-12) Read Jeremiah 46:13-26 4. Who will God use to conquer Egypt? 5. Why did God bring them punishment? (v.25) 6. What will happen later? (v.26) 7. Read Jeremiah 46:27-28, why was the remnant of Jacob not to fear? 8. God disciplined them with justice, according to Hebrews 12:5-11, how does God discipline us?

9. Read Jeremiah 47, what will happen to Philistine? Read Jeremiah 48 10. What was Moab like and what will happen to her? 11. Why were they punished? (v. 7, 26, 27, 29, 30, 35) 12. Did God hate them? (v.31, 36) How does this make you feel when God disciplines you? 13. What will Moab s future eventually look like? (v. 47) 14. How does this encourage you?

Read Jeremiah 49:1-6 1. Who had driven the Israelites out? (v. 2) Lesson 18: Jeremiah 49-51 2. What was their sin problem? (v. 4) 3. What would happen to the Ammonites? (v. 5-6) Read Jeremiah 49:7-22 4. Edom will also be judged for its pride, it will perish and be no more, who does God say He will protect in Edom? (v. 11) 5. What two animals does God say He will be like and what will the outcome be? (v. 19, 22) 6. Read Jeremiah 49:23-27, how do the people of Damascus feel? 7. Read Jeremiah 49:28-33, Kedar and Hazor will be destroyed because of their what? (v. 31) Read Jeremiah 49:34-39 8. Where will God set his throne and what will happen?

Read Jeremiah 50:1-51:64. This is another prophecy that has not fully happened yet. Babylon will be judged. Heaven and earth will shout for joy because God will have His vengeance on them. Babylon had rejoiced and was glad about hurting God s inheritance. They had opposed God and were arrogant. 9. Throughout this devastating time, there are positive things that happen. Next to each verse write down what those positive things are. 50:4-5 50:19 50:20 50:34 51:5 10. Jeremiah 50:44, God says he is like a lion. What are the two last questions God asks in this verse? What is your answer to them? 11. Jeremiah 51:15-16, says God is who? 12. Who is God to you? Will you receive God s mercy and grace?

Lesson 19: Jeremiah 52 Read Jeremiah 52:1-11, this is a summary of the history of the last king of Judah. 1. What happened to Zedekiah? 2. Why did God allow this to happen to Zedekiah? (v. 2) 3. Look back at Jeremiah 38:14-23, did God do what he said he would do? 4. Did this have to happen? Explain. 5. What does this teach you about obeying God? 6. Why was God doing this to Jerusalem and Judah? (v. 3) Read Jeremiah 52:12-16 7. What happened to the city Jerusalem? 8. What happened to those who survived?

Read Jeremiah 52:17:23 9. What happened to this beautiful temple? 10. Jeremiah prophesied that this would happen in Jeremiah 27:16-22. What was it that Hannaniah prophesied in Jeremiah 28:1-4? 11. Who was right? 12. What can we learn from this? Read Jeremiah 52:24-27 13. What happened to those that were still in the city? Read Jeremiah 52:28-30 14. How many Jews were taken into exile? Read Jeremiah 52:31-34 15. What happened to Jehoiachin? 16. How does this encourage you?

Lesson 20: Lamentations It would make sense to go ahead and read Lamentations. It was written by Jeremiah and tells of the many sorrows that happened as a result of their sin. 1. Read Lamentations 1 and jot down your thoughts. What do you find interesting in this passage? What touches your heart? 2. Read Lamentations 2 and jot down your thoughts. What do you find interesting in this passage? What touches your heart? 3. Read Lamentations 3:1-18, what was Jeremiah going through?

4. Read Lamentations 3:19-40, why does Jeremiah have hope? 5. Read Lamentations 3:41-66, what did Jeremiah tell the people to do? What did he tell God to do? 6. Read Lamentations 4 and jot down your thoughts. 7. Read Lamentations 5. All of chapter 5 is a prayer. What does Jeremiah pray for? To be remembered, (Jeremiah also confesses sin v. 16), to be restored. To be brought back to God, to no longer be rejected. Psalm 74, 79, 85, 102, 120, and 137 were all written in response to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple.