Study
9 From the Book of Jeremiah is: Jeremiah 13
1.
What is the purpose of the incident of the waistcloth? Which is
a truer description of you, verse 10 or verse 11?
2.
Consider the images used to describe the coming judgment and
their usefulness for preaching today.
See Notes below; and cf. Pss. 1:4; 60:3; Is. 8:22; 51:17; Mi. 3:6, 7;
Jn. 12:35; 2 Thes. 2:11, 12.
3.
Verse 23. What answer does the New Testament give to this
question? See Rom. 5:6; 2 Cor. 5:17.
Notes
1.
Verses 13, 14. ‘Drunkenness’ is used in a figurative sense to
describe mental fear and bewilderment, when men in their panic turn against
each other.
2.
Verse 16. ‘Give glory to the Lord’: a Hebrew expression for
confession of sin, recognizing God’s holiness, and turning from sin to
obedience. Cf. jos. 7:19; Mal. 2:2; Jn. 9:24.
3.
Verse 18: i.e., Jehoiachin and his mother Nehushta (2 Ki. 24:8,
9). Queen mothers regularly wielded great influence at court.
4.
Verse 19. ‘The Negeb’ is the area of Palestine south of
Beersheba.
5.
. Verse 21. Another. Translation reads ‘he’, God, instead of
‘they’ (driver). Cf. Dt. 28:13, 44; La. 1:5.
