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Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 26 — Jeremiah 37 and 38. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Search The Scriptures —Study 26 — Jeremiah 37 and 38. Show all posts

08 May, 2017

Search The Scriptures —Study 26 — Jeremiah 37 and 38

Study 26 From the Book of Jeremiah is: Jeremiah 37 and 38

Although Egypt had been decisively defeated by the armies of Babylon at Carchemish twenty years before (46:2), now a new king had arisen in Egypt who sought to oppose Nebuchadrezzar’s south advance. He sent an army, while Nebuchadrezzar was besieging Jerusalem, whose approach forced the Chaldeans to raise the siege.  This excited great hope, but Jeremiah was not deceived. The Chaldeans, he said, would come back and burn the city with fire.
1.     How do these tow attests of Jeremiah illustrate 1:18, 19? His arrest seems to have contributed to his safety (37:21). Should we expect to find God’s goodness in our hardest experiences? Cf. Ps. 23:4; Acts 27:21-25.
2.     Which do you think were harder to beat-the physical, sufferings or the reproaches hurled at him? Why did he not keep silent and so escape censure? See 20:7-11; Acts 4:18-20; 5:29.
3.     What can we learn from the character of Zedekiah as revealed in these chapters? Cf. Pr. 29:25a; Jas. 1:8.
Note. 37:12. ‘To take over some property among his own people’