What Seest Thou, Jeremiah?
A. PROPHECIES DELIVERED UNDER ZEDEKIAH, AND EVENTS OF JEHOIAKIM’S
TIME – OBEDIENCE vs. DISOBEDIENCE (ch. 34-36).
1. Concerning Zedekiah and the emancipation of the men-servants and maid-servants, -
shameful breach of a solemn covenant (ch. 34).
a. Message to Zedekiah: the fruitlessness of resistance to
the Chaldeans’ power (vs. 1-7).
b. The occasion of the message: re-enslavement of Hebrew servants (vs. 8-11).
c. The dreadful consequences of the breach of their covenant (vs. 12-22).
2. The examp of the Rechabites (ch. 35).
a. Faithfulness of the Rechabites to the command of their father (ch. 1-11).
b. The application to the Jews (vs. 12-15).
c. Punishment of the Jews and reward of Rechabites (vs. 16-19).
3. The writing, reading, and burning of the scroll of Jeremiah’s discourses (ch. 36).
a. The writing of the roll at the word of Jehovah (vs. 1-8).
b. The reading of the book in the temple (vs. 9-19).
Before the people (vs. 9-10).
Before the princes (vs. 11-19).
c. The reading of the book before the king, Jehoiakim (vs. 20-26).
d. The punishment to come on Jehoiakim for his wicked act (vs. 27-32).
B. LAST DAYS OF JERUSALEM – EXPERIENCES AND UTTERANCES OF JEREMIAH
DURING THE SIEGE AND CAPTURE OF THE CITY (ch. 37-39).
1. Jeremiah’s warning Zedekiah, his arrest imprisonment (ch. 37-38).
a. The siege of Jerusalem and Jeremiah’s word to Zedekiah (vs. 1-10).
b. The imprisonment of Jeremiah (vs. 11-15).
c. Zedekiah’s secret interview with Jeremiah; a change of prison (vs. 16-21).
d. Jeremiah accused of treason, cast into a miry pit; but rescued by Ebed-melech,
the Ethiopian (38:1-13).
e. Zedekiah’s last consultation with Jeremiah (38:14-28).
2. Capture of Jerusalem – Fate of Zedekiah and Jeremiah (ch. 39).
a. The fall of the city; Jeremiah’s prophecies fulfilled (vs. 1-14).
b. Jeremiah’s message of comfort to Ebed-melech (vs. 15-18).
C. PREDICTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF JEREMIAH AFTER THE DESTRUCTION
OF JERUSALEM (ch. 40-45).
1. Jeremiah freed. Murder of Gedaliah by Ishmael, and its result (ch. 40-41).
a. Liberation of Jeremiah by Nebuzaradan (40:1-6).
b. The return of the dispersed: they gather around Gedaliah (vs. 7-12).
c. Gedaliah forewarned of Ishmael’s intent to murder him (vs. 13-16).
d. Murder of Gedaliah and others by Ishmael (41:1-10).
e. Struggle against Ishmael; intended flight to Egypt (vs. 11-18).
2. The word of God concerning the flight to Egypt (ch. 42).
a. The people’s request the Jeremiah pray for them (vs. 1-6).
b. The word of the Lord: Jehovah’s reply (vs. 7-22).
3. The flight to Egypt – the conquest of Egypt predicted (ch. 43).
a. The flight of the people to Egypt (vs. 1-7).
b. Prediction regarding Egypt (vs. 8-13).
4. Warning against idolatry, and intimation of its punishment (ch. 44).
a. The warning and threatening (vs. 1-14).
b. The answer of the people to this threatening address (vs. 15-19).
c. Jeremiah’s refutation (vs. 20-23)
d. Announcement of the punishment for this idolatry (vs. 24-30).
5. A promise addressed to Baruch (ch. 45).
