What Seest Thou, Jeremiah?
610 BC – The year of Jehoiakim’s appointment – after Josiah’s death and Jehoahaz’ deportation.
1. What is the time-frame for the prophecies of this chapter? (vs. 1)
2. What was he to speak, and where? (vs. 2) What was he free to leave out?
3. What was God hoping would happen, and what did he want to do? (vs. 3)
4. Since they would not listen, what was God going to do? (vs. 6)
5. Who heard Jeremiah speak, and what did the do? (vs. 7-9)
6. Who else heard, and where did they come from to listen more? (vs. 10)
7. What did the priests judge Jeremiah worthy of and for what? (vs. 11)
8. Who told Jeremiah what to say? (vs. 12)
9. What did he tell them to do? (vs. 13)
10. What did he say for them to do with him? (vs. 14-15) With what result?
11. How did the princes and the people respond to the priests? (vs. 16) On what basis?
12. Who did the elders hold up as an example to compare with Jeremiah? (vs. 18)
13. Who was king then, and what did this man prophesy? (vs. 18)
14. How did the king kill this man? (vs. 19)
15. What did God do about what they did, and what did they infer from this? (vs. 19)
16. Who else prophesied against Jerusalem? (vs. 20)
17. What did this man do to save his own life? (vs. 21) Who threatened him?
18. Who was sent after him? (vs. 22) What was the outcome?
19. Who saved Jeremiah? (vs. 24)
Jer. 26:2 Stand in the court è2 Chron 24:20-21; Luke 19:47; 21:37-38; John 18:20;
Acts 5:20-21, 25, 42; 20:20, 24, 26-27; Isa 52:1-2
