Study 27 From the Book of Jeremiah is: Jeremiah 39-41
The fall of Jerusalem and the events immediately following.
1.
What message did Jeremiah give to Ebed-melech, and why? Cf. Mt.
10:40-42. Is your faith equally practical? Cf. Jas. 2:21-24.
2.
Note Carefully 40:2-3. Could the matter be better summed up than
in these words of a heathen officer? Cf. Pr.29:1; Is. 30:9-14.
3.
Most Christians are too ready to believe evil of others. Gedaliah
was the opposite. What can we learn from this example?
Notes
1.
39:3. ‘Rabsaris’ means chief of the princes; and ‘Rabmag’, chief
of the magi.
2.
39:4. ‘Between the two walls’: i.e., of the city, probably ‘the
wall along the west side of the east hill, and along the east side of the west
hill’ (Driver).
3.
39:5. ‘Riblah’: in the far north, fifty miles south of Hannath.
4.
41:1. Ishmael was probably jealous that Gedaliah had been
appointed governor, and sought to get the remnant of the Jews under his control
(41:10).
