Study
16 From the Book of Jeremiah is:
Jeremiah 24 and 25
With
this study we will make a short pause for now with the intense study of the
book of Jeremiah to delve once again into the book of Matthew, starting with
study 29.
Chapter
24 dates from the reign of Zedekiah.
Chapter 25 declares to Judah and the surrounding nations that they shall
all be brought under the power of Babylon with great slaughter.
1.
Who are the good figs and who the bad, and what will happen to
them respectively? Cf. Ezk. 11:14-20.
2.
25:1-11. The fulfilment of the vision of the boiling pot
(1:13-15). Much of what is said in these verses is found in proceeding
chapters. See, e.g., 7:6, 7; 16:9;
18:11, 16. What however, do you find here that is new?
3.
‘The supreme factor in history for the Hebrew is the activity of
the eternal God’. Illustrate this statement from today’s portion. Note
especially 25:29. Cf. Am. 3:2; 1 Pet. 4:17, 18. What is the correlative of
special privilege?
Notes
1.
25:12-14. These verses
break the sequence of thought, and were possibly introduced at a later date; so
also the words ‘as at this days’ in verse 18 (they are not in the LXX) and the
last clause of verse 26.
2.
25:23. Dedan, Tema and Buz were tribes of northern Arabia. Unlike
the Jews (Lv.19:27), they shaved the hair from the sides of their
forehead. Cf. 9:26.
