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Jeremiah

Old Testament · translated from the Hebrew

For forty years Jeremiah calls Judah to return to God before Jerusalem falls. He is rejected, imprisoned, and lives through the destruction of the city. In the middle of the judgment he announces a new covenant, written on the heart.

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  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
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How it is laid out

  1. The call of Jeremiahchapter 1
  2. Warnings to Judahchapters 2–25
  3. Jeremiah before kings and prophetschapters 26–29
  4. The book of consolationchapters 30–33
  5. The siege, the fall and afterchapters 34–45
  6. Oracles on the nationschapters 46–51
  7. Appendix: the fall of Jerusalemchapter 52

Key verses

Who wrote it

The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, of the priests in Anathoth (1:1). Jeremiah dictated them to Baruch son of Neriah, the scribe, who wrote them on a scroll (36:4, 32).

When it was written

Around 627–586 BC, from the thirteenth year of Josiah to the fall of Jerusalem (1:2-3). Chapter 52 reaches to around 560 BC (52:31).

For whom, and in what situation

For Judah, Jerusalem and their kings, in the last years before falling to Babylon. Chapter 29 is a letter to those already in exile in Babylon.

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