Randall Johnson

Jeremiah 44, Last Message to the Jews in Egypt

What do you do if someone contradicts your understanding of things with their own narrative of what is true? If you are the prophet Jeremiah, you give them a sign that will prove you are right and they

Jeremiah 42&43, The Remnant Returns to Egypt

Nine hundred years after being delivered from slavery in Egypt and brought to the promised land of Canaan, the remnant of Jews left after Nebuchadnezzar’s invasion and deportation of Israelites, decide

Jeremiah 40&41, Trouble Among the Remnant

The Expositor’s Commentary rightly says, “Judah was still in a state of much unrest.” The Babylonians have put a Jewish man in charge of Judah as governor, and Jeremiah has been placed with him.

Jeremiah 39, The Destruction of Jerusalem

Deportation of conquered peoples was a practice started by Assyria and adopted by Babylon. “Deportation succeeds in dismembering a society, and the conqueror does not have to worry much about rebellions

Jeremiah 38, Jeremiah in the Cistern and His Personal Meeting with the King

“Some cisterns were bottle-shaped, about three yards wide and five yards deep. They would be covered with a stone placed over the small opening at the top…Cisterns could be carved out of natural

Jeremiah 37, Jeremiah Imprisoned

We can imagine the suffering of Jeremiah, a political prisoner, in the chamber of the dungeon in Jerusalem. It was dark, with no window to the world. It was smelly, as he likely had a pot or bucket for

Jeremiah 36, The Scroll of Jeremiah

This is the only mention of a prophet’s words being dictated to a scribe, though it is likely the other prophets of Israel also used scribes. Baruch was from a prominent family and a well-known scribe

Jeremiah 35, The Example of the Rekabites

Book of Jeremiah Family Old Testament
/ By Randall Johnson

Focus on the Family urges leaving a family legacy: A spiritual, emotional and social legacy is like a three-stranded cord. Individually, each strand cannot hold much weight. But wrapped together, they

Jeremiah 34, Zedekiah’s Future and a Forsaken Covenant

You are the king of Judah, who had made a vassal covenant with Nebuchadnezzar to be a satellite nation to Babylon, paying tribute to them annually, but then you saw a chance to get out from under them

Jeremiah 33, More Promise of Restoration and the Righteous Branch

The Expositor’s Commentary says, “This chapter concludes the Book of Consolation (chs. 30-33). The remainder of Jeremiah deals with Jerusalem’s final siege and destruction and with the ultimate

Jeremiah 32, Buying Land During an Invasion

Book of Jeremiah God Old Testament
/ By Randall Johnson

32:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. 2 The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem,

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Jeremiah 44, Last Message to the Jews in Egypt

Jeremiah 42&43, The Remnant Returns to Egypt

Jeremiah 40&41, Trouble Among the Remnant

Jeremiah 39, The Destruction of Jerusalem

Jeremiah 38, Jeremiah in the Cistern and His Personal Meeting with the King

Jeremiah 37, Jeremiah Imprisoned

Jeremiah 36, The Scroll of Jeremiah

Jeremiah 35, The Example of the Rekabites

Jeremiah 34, Zedekiah’s Future and a Forsaken Covenant

Jeremiah 33, More Promise of Restoration and the Righteous Branch

Jeremiah 32, Buying Land During an Invasion

Jeremiah 31:27-40, The Promise of Restoration, Part C

Jeremiah 31:1-26, Promise of Restoration, Part B

Jeremiah 30, A Promise of Restoration

Jeremiah 29, Messages to the Exiles