THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH.

1 THE book OF THE PROPHET jeremiah . The Companion Bible (Condensed) : jeremiah : Page: 1015 THE STRUCTURE OF THE book AS A WHOLE. 1: 1-3. INTRODUCTION. 1: 4-19. jeremiah S COMMISSION GIVEN. 2: 1 20: 18. prophecies ADDRESSED TO JEWS. 21: 1 35: 19. HISTORY, &c. JEHOIAKIM. (Not chronological.) 36: 1-32. BARUCH S MISSION TO JEHOIAKIM. 37: 1 45: 5. HISTORY, &c. ZEDEKIAH. (Not chronological.) 46: 1 51: 64-. prophecies ADDRESSED TO GENTILES. 51: -64. jeremiah S COMMISSION ENDED. 52: 1-34. CONCLUSION. For the CANONICAL order and place of the Prophets, see Ap. 1, and cp. page 1206, For the CHRONOLOGICAL order of the Prophets, see Ap. 77. For the inter-relation of the prophetic books, see Ap.

2 78. For references to the Pentateuch in the Prophets, see Ap. 92. For the Canonical order of jeremiah 's prophecies , see below. For the Chronological order of jeremiah 's prophecies , see Ap. 83, For the Septuagint version of jeremiah , see Ap. 84. The prophecies of jeremiah do not profess to be given in chronological order (see Ap 83); nor is there any reason why they should be so given. Why, we ask, should modern critics first assume that they ought to be, and then condemn them because they are not ? It is the historical portions, which concern JEHOIAKIM and ZEDEKIAH , that are chiefly so affected. And, Who was Jehoiakim that his history should be of any importance?

3 Was it not he who "cut up the Word of Jehovah with a penknife, and cast it in the fire"? Why should not his history be "cut up"? ZEDEKIAH rejected the same Word of Jehovah. Why should his history be respected ? Secular authors take the liberty of arranging their own literary matter as they choose; why should this liberty be denied to the sacred writers? The fact that the canonical and chronological portions have each their own particular Structures, and that both are perfect, shows that both orders have the same Divine Author. jeremiah 's prophecy is dated (1. 2, 3) as being "in the days of Josiah .. in the thirteenth year of his reign. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah.

4 Unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah .. unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month." The 13th year of Josiah was 518 The 11th year of Zedekiah was 477 Therefore the whole period covered by jeremiah was 41 years, as shown in Ap. 50, pp. 60, 67, 68, and Ap. 77. It is highly probable that this period was exactly forty years the last probationary period (see Ap. 10) vouchsafed by Jehovah, before Jerusalem was destroyed and the Temple burnt.* But, as the month in the thirteenth year of Josiah, at which the Word first came to jeremiah , is not stated, the whole period has to be shown as above, viz. 41 years. Having regard to the Formulae of prophetic utterances (see Ap.)

5 82), there appear to be some fifty-one distinct and clearly marked prophecies , commencing with some such formula as "The word of the LORD came", &c. It would have been well if the book could have been divided into fifty-one chapters (instead of fifty-two) so as to coincide with these. They commence as follows : I. 1. 4. XIV. 21. l. XXVII. 34. 1. XL. 45 l. II. XV. 24. 4. XXVIII. XLI. III. XVI. 25. 1. XXIX.

6 34. 12. XLII. 46. 13. IV. XVII. 26. l. XXX. 34. 1. XLIII. 47. l. V. 3. 6. XVIII. 27. l. XXXI. XLIV. VI. 7. l. XIX. 28. 12. XXXII. 36. l. XLV. 49. 1. VII. 11. l. XX. 30. l. XXXIII. XLVI. 49. 7. VIII. XXI.

7 32. l. XXXIV. XLVII. 49. 23. IX. 13. 8. XXII. 32. 6. XXXV. 39. 15. XLVIII. X. 14. l. XXIII. 32. 26. XXXVI. 40. l. XLIX. 49. 34. XI. 16. l. XXIV. 33. l. XXXVII. 42. 7. L. 50. l. XII. 18. 1. XXV. 33. 19. XXXVIII. LI.

8 51. 59. XIII. 18. 5. XXVI. 33. 23. XXXIX. 44. l. * Like the corresponding period of probation covered by the Acts of the Apostles, before the destruction of the second Temple. The Fig. Ellipsis (Ap. 6) should be repeated in each of these passages, from 47. l [" The word of Jehovah came to jeremiah the PROPHET ] against", &c. THE book OF THE PROPHET jeremiah . The Companion Bible (Condensed) : jeremiah : Page: 1016 1 The words of jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: 2 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

9 3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. 4 Then [in the thirteenth year of Josiah] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I set thee apart, and I ordained thee a PROPHET unto the nations. 6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! *behold, I cannot speak: for I am a youth. 7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a youth: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

10 8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. thirteenth year. A year after Josiah began his reformation (2 Chron. 34. 3). (618 B. c. See Ap. 50. v.). Sixty-six years after Isaiah ended. For the chronology of jeremiah , see Ap. 77 and Ap. 83. From 2 Chron. 34. 22. jeremiah was probably still at Anathoth. 3 It came also in the days. See note on Gen. the fifth month. The month that Jerusalem was destroyed (52. 12. 2 Kings 25. 3, 8). After that, jeremiah continued in the Land (40. 1; 42. 7); and, later, in Egypt (chs. 43, 44). 1: 4-19. jeremiah S COMMISSION GIVEN.