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Jeremiah 10
Idols vs Yahweh You may have heard someone say that Jeremiah 10:3-4 is about Christmas Trees. 🎄 That only works if you rip those verses out of context and ignore the rest of the chapter. Now, if you burn incense to your Christmas Tree and bow down and worship it, then this text totally applies.…
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Jeremiah 9
Get your Kleenexes. There’s a lot of crying in this chapter. Jeremiah is known as “The Weeping Prophet.” The opening 2 verses of chapter 9 are probably part of the close of chapter 8. Remember that there are no chapter breaks in the original texts and some of them are stuck in some rather unfortunate…
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Jeremiah 8
The schedule only has Jeremiah 8 for today, but I think it’ll be easier for me to combine 8 & 9 than 9 & 10. So I’m releasing the post for chapter 9 today (separately) as well as 8. Hopefully you’ll have time for both. If not, then you can pick it up tomorrow. BONES…
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Jeremiah 6-7
It’s easy to get lost in all the doom and gloom of these verses. Let me see if I can help us zoom out and see the main points. JUDGEMENT IS COMING & WHY (ch. 6) “Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, each…
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Jeremiah 5
“Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.”Jeremiah 5:1 ESV “Then he said, ‘Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this…
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Jeremiah 3-4
If I had to summarize these two chapters in 5 words… “Baby, won’t you come back?” Judah (and Israel) is compared to a woman who left her husband to become a prostitute. The language is uncomfortable, but then again, so is sin. Judah SAW what happened to the northern kingdom of Israel: And the astonishing…
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Jeremiah 2
This chapter contains a cornerstone text for me. And instead of commenting on the whole of the chapter, I’m going to go straight for those cornerstone verses. I used to teach Theology of Worship, a freshman level course at the Bible College where I graduated. I would get to Jeremiah chapter 2 very early on…
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Jeremiah 1
Welcome to the longest book in the Bible. 😐 I thought that was Psalms. In English, Psalms is the longest. But in Hebrew, it’s Jeremiah, followed by Genesis, then Psalms. As far as individual men through whom God spoke the most, Jeremiah is up there with Moses, Paul, Isaiah, Ezekiel and David. It’s interesting that…
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Zephaniah
Today we read the prophet Zephaniah. We’re covering the WHOLE book in one sitting so top off your drink and grab a snack. And maybe a tent. ⛺️ WHO WAS HE? “The Lord gave this message to Zephaniah when Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah. Zephaniah was the son of Cushi, son of…
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2 Kings 23, 2 Chron. 35
JOSIAH’S REFORMS & PASSOVER Young King Josiah has already made a LOT of changes in Judah and Jerusalem. They restored the centrality of Yahweh and removed the idols from the Temple and the city. But in 2 Kings 23 we get more details on that reformation than we did in 2 Chronicles 34. Let’s look…
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2 Chron. 34, 2 Kings 22
JOSIAH BECOMES KING If you know an 8-year-old boy, imagine him suddenly becoming king. Scary isn’t it? I think most 8-year-old boys today would make it their first official duty to decree… I would imagine that there were officials and advisors to assist leading the government because the king probably couldn’t even read yet. But…
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