‘The word which came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (the same was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,)' This is the first oracle to be so accurately dated, and it indicates that the oracle came to Jeremi... [ Continue Reading ]
SUBSECTION 8). JEREMIAH SUMMARISES HIS MINISTRY BEFORE THE PEOPLE AND AFTER DECLARING WHAT IS TO COME ON JUDAH PROCLAIMS THE JUDGMENT OF YHWH THAT IS COMING ON ALL NATIONS (JEREMIAH 25:1). This final subsection of Section 1 commences with ‘The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,' The fact that the words were spoken to ‘all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem' suggests it was at a festal occasion when all the people had gathered to the Centr... [ Continue Reading ]
JEREMIAH'S WARNING TO THE PEOPLE CONCERNING THEIR FUTURE (JEREMIAH 25:3). Jeremiah 25:3 ‘From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these three and twenty years, the word of YHWH has come to me, and I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking, but... [ Continue Reading ]
BABYLON HERSELF WILL EVENTUALLY BE SUBJECT TO YHWH'S JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 25:12). Jeremiah 25:12 “And it will come about, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, the word of YHWH, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE MADE TO DRINK FROM THE CUP OF YHWH'S WRATH AGAINST SIN AND IDOLATRY (JEREMIAH 25:15). In these remarkable words the destinies of all nations are seen as in YHWH's hands. And their destiny is to be drunk and to reel about as a result of YHWH's wrath (antipathy against sin). N... [ Continue Reading ]
YHWH WILL ROAR FROM HEAVEN AND THE EARTH WILL FACE ITS JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 25:30). What is coming on the world is pictured in terms of ‘universal' catastrophe, as so often in the prophets. The idea is that the world will be turned upside down. But the nations described, and the context of the prophec... [ Continue Reading ]