To The Reader

I know that the reading schedule has only chapter 24 for today, but 25 and 26 are both longer chapters while 24 is short. So I’m shifting. Again. After King Jehoiachin (Jeconiah) and the royal family went out and gave themselves up to the Babylonians, Jeremiah received this prophetic vision of good and bad figs.…

Chapter 22 is a series of messages from Yawheh to Judah’s kings. To review the history of these guys, refer to 2 Chronicles 36:1-10 and 2 Kings 23:30-24:1-20. Here is the basic data: FINAL FOUR KINGS OF JUDAH These young men sat on the throne of their ancestor David, but would not listen to the…

Jeremiah’s latest prophecy – which involved taking an earthen jar that represented Judah and smashing it to smithereens in the Valley of Hinnom – well… it didn’t sit well with the High Priest. The high priest is a man called Pashhur. According to Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon his name means… Jeremiah smashing the pot and prophesying…

Lessons from pottery… 🏺 We could talk about a lot of things from these chapters, but… The best thing I could share with you today is a devotional called “Parables of the Potter” from The Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It’s 22 minutes long. And I have no idea who filmed it. It’s…

We have come to (arguably) the most famous verse in all of Jeremiah: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭17‬:‭9‬ ‭ESV‬‬ The “heart” is the word leb in Hebrew. We westerners like to be all analytical and divide the inner man into neat boxes of mind/intellect, will,…

Jeremiah is still a young man. But he doesn’t hang out with other young people. Whatever the ancient equivalent of sitting by yourself at the lunch table was, that’s his lot. 😐 Maybe the stinky underwear had something to do with it. Personal hygiene goes a long way in making friends, ya know. Well….Can’t argue…

The Ruined Loincloth Prophecy Or The Sign of the Dirty Underwear 🩲 😆 That sounds like the title of a Captain Underpants book. Nevertheless, it is an appropriate title for this one-of-a-kind sign prophecy. It’s funny to me that King David dancing before the LORD in his linen ephod (a tunic, NOT a loincloth) gets…

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…

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…