Jeremiah 1                                                        Book of Jeremiah 

Jeremiah means  Human kings "rejected." David's "righteous Branch" "raised up."

 

Jeremiah 1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

• Jeremiah's prophecy is dated (Jeremiah 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 ... 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 B.C.
• The 11th year of Zedekiah was 477 B.C.
• Therefore the whole period covered by Jeremiah was 41 years.
• It is highly probable that this period was exactly forty years the last probationary period vouch safed by God, 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, 41 years.
• Having regard to the Formulae of prophetic utterances, there appear to be some fifty-one distinct and clearly marked prophecies, commencing with some such formula as "The word of the LORD came".
• It would have been well if the book could have been divided into fifty-one chapters (instead of fifty-two)
• Like the corresponding period of probation covered by the Acts of the Apostles, before the destruction of the second Temple. 
• Should be repeated in each of these passages, from Jeremiah 47:1 " The word of God came to Jeremiah the prophet against".

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.

• The word of the LORD came. It is remarkable that, in the four longer prophets, this formula is almost entirely confined to the two who were priests (Jeremiah and Ezekiel).
• The LORD, In Hebrew God
• Josiah. Three kings named here and in Jeremiah 1:3 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.
• 2 Kings 23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
• 2 Kings 24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
• Two others not named here (Jehoahaz and Jehoiachin), who reigned only three months each.
• Thirteenth year. A year after Josiah began his reformation
• 2 Chronicles 34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
• Sixty-six years after Isaiah ended. For the chronology of Jeremiah.
• Jeremiah was probably still at Anathoth.
• 2 Chronicles 34:22 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.

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.

• It came also in the days. Genesis 14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;
• The fifth month. The month that Jerusalem was destroyed.
• Jeremiah 52:12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem.
• 2 Kings 25:3 And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
• 2 Kings 25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
• After that, Jeremiah continued in the Land; and, later, in Egypt.
• Jeremiah 40:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.
• Jeremiah 42:7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.

4 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

• Then, in the thirteenth year of Josiah.
• Word, because referring to this special prophecy.

5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

• I formed thee in the belly I knew thee
• This is certainly plainly stated.
• I knew you before you were in your mother's belly.
• God knew the soul He placed in the flesh body of this man, who is called Jeremiah.
• And do you know what that means?
• Before you were born of woman into this world that is, God knew you.
• He sanctified you, if you're one of the elect, and destined you to teach His truth.
• I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations = Gentiles =  All races
• Sanctified thee = set thee apart, or, hallowed thee.
• Exodus 3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is Holy Ground.
• Compare John Baptist, Luke 1:15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
  16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
  17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias (Elijah), to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
•  Paul, Galations 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
  16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
• Samson, Judges 13:3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

6 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

7 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

• Numbers 22:20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

8 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

9 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

• The almond tree (tree or nut; as being the earliest in bloom) almond (tree).

12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.

14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

 

15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

• Bible study Daniel 2 and Revelation 17:10-14
• Daniel 2:42 Note these two kingdoms the 5th and the 6th. The feet are the two branches from whence the ten toes come, being the same as the free world verse or communist world, or the mingling of the true Israelites with other religions.
• Mark 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it (he) ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

• Worshipped the works of their own hands

17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

• Gird was their belt. In this time men wore skirts. When they went to war they would take their gird (belt) to hold their skirt up.
• Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
• Last days = Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
  13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
  14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
  15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
  16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
  17 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

• Made thee = give thee (as)
• Brasen walls, with two early printed editions read "a wall of bronze".
• Against, Anaphora, by which "against" is repeated seven times.
• In order to emphasize the fact that as man's thoughts and ways are the opposite of God's.
• It is impossible for a prophet who is God's spokesman to be other than "against" man.
• Isaiah 55:8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the LORD.
• Jeremiah 34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
  20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.
  21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.

19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

 

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25