Study 19 From the Book of Jeremiah is: Jeremiah 29
Those who had been carried into exile in the first captivity
under Jehoiachin (2 Ki. 24:14-16) were being made restless by prophets who
prophesied falsely that they would soon be set free. Jeremiah therefore wrote a
letter to them declaring that the exile would last seventy years.
1.
What as revealed to Jeremiah, were the Lord’s thoughts (a)
towards the exiles in Babylon, and (b) towards Zedekiah and those who remained
in Jerusalem? With verse 17, cf. Chapter 24.
2.
Verses 10-14. What is God’s doing and what man’s in the promised
restoration? Note the divine initiative
and sovereignty throughout this chapter, and indeed throughout the book. Note also how its benefits are to be enjoyed.
3.
What three prophets are mentioned by name by Jeremiah? What
accusations did he bring against them, and what judgment did he pronounce upon
them?
Notes
1.
Verse 24. ‘Shemaiah’: that he, too was a prophet is seen from
verse 31.
2.
Verse 25. ‘Zephaniah’: probably the same as the Zephaniah who in
52:24 is called ‘the second priest’. i.e., second to the high priest. Cf. 21:1
