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Jeremiah

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I.  Jeremiah's call and commission—1:1-19A.  Introduction—vv. 1-3B.  Jeremiah's call—vv. 4-8C.  Jeremiah's commission—vv. 9-19II.  Israel's sin against Jehovah and Jehovah's punishment upon Israel—2:1-45:5A.  Israel's two evils—forsaking Jehovah, the fountain of living waters, and hewing out for themselves broken cisterns—2:1-3:5B.  Israel's return or Jehovah's correction for her apostasy—3:6-4:31
1.  Israel the wife's apostasy—3:6-11
2.  Israel the wife's return—3:12-4:2
3.  Jehovah the Husband's correction—4:3-31
C.  Jehovah the Husband's further complaint against Israel (actually Judah) the wife's wickednesses in detail—5:1-31D.  Jehovah the Husband's determination in correcting the wife—6:1-30E.  Israel's (actually Judah's) hypocritical worship to Jehovah—7:1-10:25F.  Israel's (actually Judah's) breaking of Jehovah's covenant—11:1-13:27G.  Jehovah's punishment of Israel (actually Judah) with drought—14:1-15:9
1.  Jehovah's message concerning their drought—14:1-6
2.  Jeremiah the prophet's intercession—14:7-15:9
a.  His intercession—14:7-9b.  Jehovah's refusal—14:10-12c.  The prophet's prayer concerning the false prophets, and Jehovah's answer—14:13-16d.  The reaction of the prophet, who was one with the punishing Jehovah—14:17-18e.  The prophet's further intercession—14:19-22f.  Jehovah's answer—15:1-4g.  The punishing Jehovah's sighing for His punished people—15:5-9H.  Jehovah's further commission to Jeremiah—15:10-16:9I.  Jehovah's further statement of Judah's (as Israel's) sins—16:10-17:27J.  Jehovah as the Potter and Israel as the pottery—18:1-20:18
1.  Jehovah as the sovereign Potter—18:1-10
2.  The evil condition of Israel—18:11-23
3.  Israel as a potter's earthenware jar to be broken—19:1-13
4.  Jeremiah's repeated prophecy concerning Israel—19:14-15
5.  Israel's persecution of Jeremiah—20:1-2, 7-10
6.  Jehovah's dealing with Israel—20:3-6
7.  Jeremiah's accusation against Israel—20:11-13
8.  Jeremiah's cursing of the day of his birth—20:14-18
K.  Jehovah's condemnation of and punishment upon the kings of Judah with their people—21:1-23:8(Jehovah's promise of restoration to Israel—23:3-8)L.  Jehovah's condemnation of and punishment upon the prophets of Judah with the priests and with the people—23:9-40M.  Judah's captivity—24:1-25:38
1.  Jeremiah's vision of two baskets of figs—24:1-10
2.  Jeremiah's prophecy concerning all the people of Judah—25:1-38
N.  Judah's reaction to Jeremiah—26:1-24O.  Jeremiah's genuine prophecies versus the others' false prophecies—27:1-29:32
1.  Concerning Nebuchadnezzar as bonds and yokes on Israel and the nations around her—27:1-15
2.  Concerning the bringing back of the vessels of the house of Jehovah—27:16-22
3.  Concerning the breaking of the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and the bringing back of the vessels of the house of Jehovah and all the exiles from Judah to Babylon—28:1-17
4.  Concerning the destiny of the captives in Babylon and of those who remain in Judah—29:1-32
P.  Jehovah's promise concerning the restoration of Israel—30:1-33:26
1.  Jehovah to turn the captivity of Israel and Judah and to bring them back to the land after His chastisement of them—30:1-31:40
2.  The imprisonment and condemnation of Jeremiah by Zedekiah—32:1-5
3.  Jeremiah's buying of the field in Anathoth—32:6-15
4.  Jeremiah's dealing with Jehovah concerning the field—32:16-25
5.  Jehovah's answer to Jeremiah—32:26-44
6.  The word of Jehovah as a reaffirmation of His promise concerning the restoration of Israel—33:1-26
Q.  Israel's stubbornness in their sinning against Jehovah and Jeremiah's firmness in his speaking for Jehovah—34:1-45:5
1.  Before the fall of Jerusalem—34:1-38:28
a.  Nebuchadnezzar's invasion and Zedekiah's destiny—34:1-7b.  Zedekiah's dishonesty in keeping God's commandment, and Jehovah's punishment—34:8-22c.  The example of the Rechabites—35:1-19d.  Jehoiakim's stubbornness in burning Jeremiah's book of prophecy, and Jehovah's punishment—36:1-32e.  The first step of Jeremiah's imprisonment—37:1-21f.  The second step of Jeremiah's imprisonment—38:1-28
2.  In the fall of Jerusalem—39:1-10
a.  The capture of Jerusalem—vv. 1-3b.  The punishment of Zedekiah—vv. 4-10
3.  After the fall of Jerusalem—the release of Jeremiah from the court of the king's guard—39:11-14
4.  Before the fall of Jerusalem—the destiny of Ebed-melech—39:15-18
5.  After the fall of Jerusalem—40:1-44:30
a.  The release of Jeremiah from the chains among the exiles—40:1-6b.  The history of the remnant of Judah from Gedaliah to Johanan—40:7-44:30(1)  The gathering of the remnant of Judah from Gedaliah—40:7-12(2)  The murder of Gedaliah—40:13-41:10(3)  Johanan's victory over Ishmael—41:11-15(4)  The direction of Johanan and the remnant of Judah—41:16-18(5)  The dishonesty of the remnant and the leaders in asking Jeremiah to pray for them—42:1-43:7(6)  The word of Jehovah through Jeremiah concerning the destiny of the remnant of Judah in Egypt—43:8-44:14(7)  The argument between a great assemblage and Jeremiah the prophet—44:15-30
6.  Before the fall of Jerusalem—the word of Jehovah to Baruch—45:1-5
III.  Jehovah's punishment and judgment upon the nations involved with God's elect, Israel—46:1-51:64A.  Upon Egypt—46:2-26(A word of comfort to Israel—46:27-28)B.  Upon the Philistines—47:1-7C.  Upon Moab—48:1-47D.  Upon the children of Ammon—49:1-6E.  Upon Edom—49:7-22F.  Upon Damascus—49:23-27G.  Upon Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor—49:28-33H.  Upon Elam—49:34-39I.  Upon Babylon—50:1-51:64IV.  A supplement to the history of captivity—52:1-34A.  The fall of Jerusalem—vv. 1-16B.  The plunder of the temple—vv. 17-23C.  The exile of the people of Judah—vv. 24-27D.  The number of those exiled by Nebuchadnezzar from Judah—vv. 28-30E.  The lifting up of Jehoiachin king of Judah—vv. 31-34Outline of Jeremiah
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