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Jeremiah 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter includes the third of the passages known as the "Confessions of Jeremiah" (Jeremiah 17:14–18). [1]
— Jeremiah 17:7–8 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. — Psalm 1:3
Jeremiah was called to prophecy c. 626 BC [14] by God to proclaim Jerusalem's coming destruction [15] by invaders from the north. [16] This was because Israel had forsaken God by worshiping the idols of Baal [17] and burning their children as offerings to Baal. [18]
Ishmael was a soldier, described as a ‘captain of the forces’ (2 Kings 25:23; and Jeremiah 41:3). Together with a number of other such captains, Ishmael emerges from the surrounding open country (Jeremiah 40:7) and makes his way to Mizpah, a city in Benjamin, after Gedaliah is appointed governor. Although the forces were likely to have been ...
The Second Epistle to the Corinthians 1–7. 978 pages; Thrall, Margaret E. (1994). The Second Epistle to the Corinthians 8–13. 978 pages; Burton, Ernest DeWitt (1920). The Epistle to the Galatians. 539 pages [2] Best, Ernest (1998). Ephesians. 685 pages; Abbott, Thomas K. (1902). The Epistles to the Ephesians and to the Colossians.
Chapters 7 to 10 are brought together "because of their common concern with religious observance". [9] Streane, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, dates Jeremiah's address to the beginning of the reign of King Jehoiakim (608–7 BC), because Jeremiah 26:1's very similar wording, "Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship ...
Jeremiah 47 is the forty-seventh chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter is part of a series of "oracles against foreign nations", consisting of chapters 46 to 51. [1]
Jeremiah 31 is a part of the Eleventh prophecy (Jeremiah 30-31) in the Consolations (Jeremiah 30-33) section. As mentioned in the "Text" section, verses 30:25-31:39 in the Hebrew Bible below are numbered as 31:1-40 in the Christian Bible. [7] {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.