Life of the Prophet Jeremiah

More is cognize of the life of Jeremiah than of any other literary prophet. He began prophesying in the thirteenth class of the reign of King Josiah (12 253), i. e. , 627 B. C. , when Jeremiah was only a youth (16). Jeremiah was a reluctant prophet, scarcely felt compelled to direct Gods word (209). He prophesied until after Nebuchadnezzar ruined Jerusalem in 586 B. C. (391-10 437-8 441), and his ministry lasted a total of about cardinal courses. Josiahs great religious reformation came in the early part of Jeremiahs written report (cf. Kings chapters 22-23), unless the reforms did not reach the hearts of the people, for they were suave rebellious (251-7). The Jews opposed Jeremiah and his work from the really outset.First, the citizens of his native Anathoth tried to stop his work and even attempted to kill him (1118-23). heretofore his kinsmen opposed him (126). Jeremiah later moved to Jerusalem, but he endured inveterate opposition there also. When King Josiah died, Jeremiah lamented his death (2 Chron. 3525). Jeremiah prophesied once morest Josiahs resistant successors Jehoahaz (also called Shallum) (2211-17), Jehoiakim (2218-19), and Jeconiah (i. . , Coniah or Jehoiachin) (2224- In the very year Nebuchadnezzar came once against Jerusalem, Jeremiah announced both his coming and the seventy year captivity of the Jews (251-14). Under the recipe of Jehoiakim, Jeremiah preached a great sermon in the temple in Jerusalem (chapters 7-9). subsequently this the princes, prophets, and priests of Judah called for his death (268-11). However, Jeremiah was delivered at that time (2624). At the Lords direction, Jeremiah dictated his prophecies to Baruch, who wrote them on a volute (361-8).However, when King Jehoiakim read the scroll, he was so angry he cut it with a scribes knife and threw it into the fire (3620-25). The queen commanded that Jeremiah and Baruch be seized, but the Lord hid them (3626). Jeremiah dictated the prophecies to Baruch again an d added others (3627-32). Jeremiah urged King Zedekiah to be faithful to Nebuchadnezzar, but Zedekiah refused (2712-22). The Babylonians besieged Jerusalem, and great suffering resulted. Later, Jeremiah was incriminate of trying to defect to the enemy and was set(p) in prison (3711-15).Subsequently the king transferred him from the dungeon to the court of the prison and gave him a daily ration of bread (3717-21). When Jeremiah again prophesied against Jerusalem, the king turned him over to the princes, who threw him into a dungeon, the bottom of which was filled with mud, into which Jeremiah sank (381-6). Jeremiah would have died there, had he not been rescued by Ebed-Melech, an Ethiopian eunuch of the kings house (387-13). When Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem, he allow Jeremiah go free to his own habitation (3911-14).A mutinous band of Jews murder Gedaliah, who had been appointed governor by Nebuchadnezzar (411-3). They stubborn to flee to Egypt for safety, taking Jeremiah with t hem as a hostage (431-7). They took Jeremiah to Tahpanes in Egypt, where he move to prophesy against them (438 441). The life of Jeremiah was one of sorrow upon sorrow. His people whom he loved and with whom he pleaded unceasingly for l years continually refused to hear him, rewarded his ride with rejection and persecution, and eventually perished as the result.