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# 📖 Jeremiah
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> [[#📖 Summary of Book]]
> [[#📚 Genre]]
> [[#🙋♂️ Who is the Author]]
> [[#⌛️ When Was it Written]]
> [[#🧭 Theme Verse]]
> [[#🧭 Major Themes]]
> [[#📅 Outline of Book]]
> **[[#✍️ Chapter-by-Chapter Notes]]**
> [[#🙏 Devotional Reflections]]
> [[#📚 Further Study / Interesting Insights]]
## 📖 Summary of Book
> The Book of Jeremiah records the ministry of the prophet Jeremiah during the final years of Judah before the Babylonian exile. Called as a young man, Jeremiah faithfully proclaimed God’s warnings of judgment because of persistent idolatry and injustice. Despite intense persecution, rejection, and personal suffering, he remained obedient to God’s message. The book also contains powerful promises of restoration and the coming New Covenant.
#### 📚 Genre
- Prophetic Literature
- Major Prophets
#### 🙋♂️ Who is the Author
- Jeremiah (with assistance from Baruch, his scribe)
#### ⌛️ When Was it Written
- Approximately 627–580 BC
## 🧭 Theme Verse
> Jeremiah 31:33 (NET)
> “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the LORD. “I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
## 🧭 Major Themes
• God’s judgment on sin
• Call to repentance
• Covenant faithfulness
• The New Covenant
• True and false prophecy
• God’s compassion and grief
• Faithfulness in suffering
• National and personal responsibility
• Restoration and hope
• God’s sovereign purposes
## 📅 Outline of Book
- 1:1–25:38 — Jeremiah’s Call and Early Ministry
- Commissioning
- Warnings to Judah
- Temple sermon
- Calls to repentance
- 26:1–29:32 — Conflict and Opposition
- Trials and persecution
- False prophets
- Letter to the exiles
- 30:1–33:26 — Book of Consolation
- Restoration promises
- New Covenant
- Future hope
- 34:1–45:5 — Final Years of Judah
- Fall of Jerusalem
- Gedaliah’s governorship
- Flight to Egypt
- 46:1–51:64 — Oracles Against the Nations
- Judgments on surrounding nations
- Fall of Babylon
- 52:1–34 — Historical Appendix
- Destruction of Jerusalem
- Release of Jehoiachin
## ✍️ Chapter-by-Chapter Notes
- [[Jeremiah 01]]
- [[Jeremiah 02]]
- [[Jeremiah 03]]
- [[Jeremiah 04]]
- [[Jeremiah 05]]
- [[Jeremiah 06]]
- [[Jeremiah 07]]
- [[Jeremiah 08]]
- [[Jeremiah 09]]
- [[Jeremiah 10]]
- [[Jeremiah 11]]
- [[Jeremiah 12]]
- [[Jeremiah 13]]
- [[Jeremiah 14]]
- [[Jeremiah 15]]
- [[Jeremiah 16]]
- [[Jeremiah 17]]
- [[Jeremiah 18]]
- [[Jeremiah 19]]
- [[Jeremiah 20]]
- [[Jeremiah 21]]
- [[Jeremiah 22]]
- [[Jeremiah 23]]
- [[Jeremiah 24]]
- [[Jeremiah 25]]
- [[Jeremiah 26]]
- [[Jeremiah 27]]
- [[Jeremiah 28]]
- [[Jeremiah 29]]
- [[Jeremiah 30]]
- [[Jeremiah 31]]
- [[Jeremiah 32]]
- [[Jeremiah 33]]
- [[Jeremiah 34]]
- [[Jeremiah 35]]
- [[Jeremiah 36]]
- [[Jeremiah 37]]
- [[Jeremiah 38]]
- [[Jeremiah 39]]
- [[Jeremiah 40]]
- [[Jeremiah 41]]
- [[Jeremiah 42]]
- [[Jeremiah 43]]
- [[Jeremiah 44]]
- [[Jeremiah 45]]
- [[Jeremiah 46]]
- [[Jeremiah 47]]
- [[Jeremiah 48]]
- [[Jeremiah 49]]
- [[Jeremiah 50]]
- [[Jeremiah 51]]
- [[Jeremiah 52]]
## 🙏 Devotional Reflections
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## 📚 Further Study / Interesting Insights
**Further Study**.
1. J. A. Thompson, The Book of Jeremiah (New International Commentary on the Old Testament)
2. Tremper Longman III and Raymond B. Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament (Jeremiah section)
3. Philip Ryken, Jeremiah and Lamentations (Preaching the Word Series)
**Interesting Insights**.
1. Jeremiah is often called “the weeping prophet.”
2. His ministry lasted over 40 years.
3. He began prophesying as a teenager.
4. Baruch recorded many of his prophecies.
5. Jeremiah was imprisoned multiple times.
6. He was forbidden by God to marry.
7. He wore symbolic objects to illustrate his messages.
8. The book is not arranged chronologically.
9. Jesus quoted Jeremiah several times.
10. Jeremiah’s prophecies influenced Daniel’s prayer in Daniel 9.
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