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Jeremiah

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Old Testament · Major Prophets · 31 chapter studies + Introduction · 32 narrated · Total audio: 10 hrs 7 min

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  1. Intro Jeremiah - General Introduction Jeremiah is the prophet of wounded covenant love, truthful judgment, costly intercession, exile, and the new covenant written by God on the heart. 17 min read Narrated
  2. 1 Jeremiah 1 - Jeremiah Called Jeremiah 1 shows that prophetic service begins in God's prior knowledge, receives God's word, sees God's watchfulness, and stands only by God's promised presence. 13 min read Narrated
  3. 2-3 Jeremiah 2-3 - Israel Forsakes the Lord Jeremiah 2-3 opens the covenant lawsuit: Judah has forsaken the living fountain for broken cisterns, yet the wounded Lord still calls His faithless people to return and be healed. 21 min read Narrated
  4. 4 Jeremiah 4 - Return and the circumcised heart Jeremiah 4 summons Judah to return, break up fallow ground, circumcise the heart, and hear the prophet's grief before the disaster from the north unveils the land's inward ruin. 15 min read Narrated
  5. 5 Jeremiah 5 - Searching for faithfulness Jeremiah 5 searches Jerusalem for one person who does judgment and seeks faithfulness, exposing false oaths, rejected correction, corrupt leadership, social injustice, and a... 14 min read Narrated
  6. 6 Jeremiah 6 - False peace and the old paths Jeremiah 6 concentrates the northern alarm around Jerusalem, exposing uncircumcised ears, false peace, rejected sacrifice, refusal of the old paths, and failed refining. 14 min read Narrated
  7. 7 Jeremiah 7 - Temple sermon Jeremiah 7 is the standalone temple sermon: the Lord exposes false security in holy places, calls for corrected ways and justice, warns from Shiloh and Topheth, and shows that... 14 min read Narrated
  8. 8 Jeremiah 8 - Refused repentance and no balm in Gilead Jeremiah 8 exposes a people who will not turn back, false wisdom that rejects the word of the Lord, and the anguished question whether there is balm in Gilead for the daughter of... 11 min read Narrated
  9. 9 Jeremiah 9 - Lament and knowing the Lord Jeremiah 9 deepens the lament over falsehood and treachery, teaches holy mourning, and defines true boasting and knowledge of the Lord as mercy, judgment, and righteousness. 12 min read Narrated
  10. 10 Jeremiah 10 - Idols and the living God Jeremiah 10 contrasts the idols of the nations — wood, silver, gold, carried by their makers — with the living God who made the heavens and the earth by His wisdom and power, and... 10 min read Narrated
  11. 11-12 Jeremiah 11-12 - Covenant betrayal and the innocent lamb Jeremiah 11-12 moves from broken covenant to the plot against the innocent lamb and the prophet's complaint before God, forming a Good Friday reading of betrayal, suffering, and... 14 min read Narrated
  12. 13 Jeremiah 13 - The ruined linen girdle and Bright Saturday warning Jeremiah 13 uses the ruined linen girdle, the wine-jars of judgment, and the Bright Saturday warning against pride and darkness to call God's people back before the flock is... 10 min read Narrated
  13. 14-15 Jeremiah 14-15 - Drought, intercession, and prophetic anguish Jeremiah 14-15 keeps drought, rejected intercession, false prophetic peace, and Jeremiah's own wounded complaint in one guide because chapter 15 is the Lord's direct answer to... 20 min read Narrated
  14. 16 Jeremiah 16 - Life as sign, exile, and the nations turning from idols Jeremiah 16 shows the prophet's own life becoming a sign of judgment, then opens toward a new exodus and the nations renouncing idols. 9 min read Narrated
  15. 17 Jeremiah 17 - Trust, the deep heart, and Sabbath at the gates Jeremiah 17 exposes false trust, the deep heart, the Lord as fountain of life, and Sabbath obedience at the gates of Jerusalem. 9 min read Narrated
  16. 18-20 Jeremiah 18-20 - Potter, broken vessel, and Pashhur Jeremiah 18-20 moves from clay that can be reshaped, to a vessel shattered beyond repair, to the wounded prophet whose word burns like fire in his bones. 13 min read Narrated
  17. 21-23 Jeremiah 21-23 - Kings, shepherds, and righteous Branch Jeremiah 21-23 judges failed kings and shepherds while promising the righteous Branch who gathers and rules with justice. 16 min read Narrated
  18. 24-25 Jeremiah 24-25 - Figs and seventy years Jeremiah 24-25 interprets exile through the baskets of figs, seventy years of discipline, and the opening oracle against Elam. 9 min read Narrated
  19. 26 Jeremiah 26 LXX - Egypt humbled before the Lord Brenton/LXX Jeremiah 26 carries the oracle against Egypt, familiar as Jeremiah 46 in English Bibles following the Masoretic order. 8 min read Narrated
  20. 27-28 Jeremiah 27-28 LXX - Babylon judged Brenton/LXX Jeremiah 27-28 contains the oracles against Babylon, familiar as Jeremiah 50-51 in English Bibles following the Masoretic order. 20 min read Narrated
  21. 29-31 Jeremiah 29-31 LXX - Philistia and the neighboring nations Brenton/LXX Jeremiah 29-31 carries oracles against Philistia, Idumea, Ammon, Kedar, Damascus, and Moab, familiar as portions of Jeremiah 47-49 in English Bibles following the... 18 min read Narrated
  22. 32 Jeremiah 32 LXX - The cup for all nations Brenton/LXX Jeremiah 32 contains the command to take the cup of unmixed wine for all the nations, familiar as Jeremiah 25:15-38 and portions of 49 in English Bibles following the... 9 min read Narrated
  23. 33 Jeremiah 33 LXX - The prophet on trial at the temple Brenton/LXX Jeremiah 33 contains the temple trial of the prophet, familiar as Jeremiah 26 in English Bibles following the Masoretic order. 11 min read Narrated
  24. 34-36 Jeremiah 34-36 LXX - Yoke false prophecy and the letter to the exiles Brenton/LXX Jeremiah 34-36 contains the yoke to the nations, the conflict with Hananiah the false prophet, and the letter to the exiles, familiar as Jeremiah 27-29 in English... 17 min read Narrated
  25. 37-38 Jeremiah 37-38 LXX - Consolation and new covenant Brenton/LXX Jeremiah 37-38 carries the familiar consolation and new-covenant hope often cited from Jeremiah 30-31 in English Bibles. 15 min read Narrated
  26. 39-40 Jeremiah 39-40 LXX - The purchased field and promise renewed Jeremiah purchases a field during the siege, and the Lord answers certain judgment with a promise of healing, covenant renewal, and ordinary life restored. 15 min read Narrated
  27. 41 Jeremiah 41 LXX - Freedom proclaimed and betrayed Judah proclaims freedom for Hebrew servants, reverses the mercy for advantage, and turns covenant language into a witness against itself. 7 min read Narrated
  28. 42-43 Jeremiah 42-43 LXX - Rechabite obedience and the unburned word The Rechabites expose Judah’s refusal to hear, while Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah’s scroll and discovers that the word of God cannot be destroyed. 13 min read Narrated
  29. 44-46 Jeremiah 44-46 LXX - Prison cistern and Jerusalem's fall Jeremiah suffers imprisonment and the cistern while Zedekiah resists public obedience; Ebed-Melech acts with mercy before Jerusalem falls. 15 min read Narrated
  30. 47-48 Jeremiah 47-48 LXX - Gedaliah and the shattered remnant After Jerusalem’s fall, Gedaliah offers stability, Ishmael betrays hospitality, and fear scatters the remnant that had begun to gather. 10 min read Narrated
  31. 49-51 Jeremiah 49-51 LXX - Egypt refusal idolatry and the word to Baruch The remnant asks for God’s direction, rejects it when it crosses their plans, chooses Egypt as a false refuge, and hears a personal word to Baruch. 18 min read Narrated
  32. 52 Jeremiah 52 - Jerusalem destroyed Jeremiah 52 closes the book with Jerusalem burned, the temple vessels taken, exile counted, and Jehoiachin lifted up as a small sign that mercy has not vanished. 8 min read Narrated