Study
7 From the Book of Jeremiah is: Jeremiah 9:23 – 10:25
1.
9:23, 24. What is better
than wisdom, power and wealth? Cf. also 1 Cor.1:26-31; Phil. 3:8-11. What do
you set most store by in the normal course of life?
2.
Set down, on the one hand, the characteristics here mentioned of
the idols of the heathen, and on the other, the character of the living God.
3.
What are the implications of 10:23, 24? Have you learnt to live
by them? See 30:11 and cf. Pr. 3:5-7,
11, 12.
Notes
1.
9:25, 26. All these nations practiced circumcision, and Judah,
despise the fact that her circumcision was ordained to mark a unique
relationship with God, takes her place here between Egypt and Edom because her
spiritually uncircumcised state (cf. 4:4; Rom. 2:28, 29) has rendered her
physical circumcision no more meaningful than theirs.
2.
10:11. Probably originally a reader’s marginal comment, in response
the denunciation of idols.
3.
10:17. ‘Bundle’: a few hastily gathered possessions for
immediate fight.
4.
10:21. ‘Shepherds’: see 2:8 and mg.; 3:15.
