jeremoth Summary and Overview

(heights). 1. A Benjamite chief, a son of the house of Beriah of Elpaal. #1Ch 8:14| comp. 1Chr 8:12-18 (B.C. about 588.) 2. A merarite levite, son of Mushi. #1Ch 23:23| 3. Son of Heman; head of the thirteenth course of musicians in the divine service. #1Ch 25:22| (B.C. 1014.) 4. One of the sons of Elam, and, 5. One of the sons of Zattu, who had taken strange wives. #Ezr 10:26,27| (B.C. 459.) 6. The name which appears in the same list as "and RAMOTH," ver. 29.

JER'EMOTH (heights). 1. Head of a Benjamite family. 1 Chr 8:14. 2. A Merarite Levite, 1 Chr 23:23; called Jerimoth in 1 Chr 24:30. 3. The head of the 13th course of musicians. 1 Chr 25:22. In v. 4 the name is Jerimoth. 4. 1. Two who had foreign wives. Ezr 10:26-27.

1. 1 Chronicles 25:4,22. 2. Ezra 10:26. 3. Ezra 10:27. (1) Jeremiah 2; (2) Jeremiah 3-4; (3) Jeremiah 7-10, (4) Jeremiah 11-13, (5) Jeremiah 14-17, (6) Jeremiah 18-20, (7) Jeremiah 21-24. III. Review of all nations, in two sections: (1) Jeremiah 46-49. (2) Jeremiah 25. IV. Historical appendix, in three sections: (1) Jeremiah 34:1-7, (2) Jeremiah 34:8-22, (3) Jeremiah 35. V. Conclusion, in two sections: Jeremiah 36:2, etc., (2) Jeremiah 45. (1) Subsequently in Egypt he added Jeremiah 46:13-26 to his previous prophecy as to Egypt; also the three sections Jeremiah 37-39; Jeremiah 40-44. A later hand (see Jeremiah 51:64) probably appended Jeremiah 52 from 2 Kings 24:18 ff; 25:30. Our Hebrew text seems the latest and fullest edition from Jeremiah's own hand. TheSeptuagint has a different order of the prophecies against foreign nations, Jeremiah 46-51 being placed after Jeremiah 25:13,14. Probably these prophecies were repeated more than once; in the original smaller collection (for Septuagint omit much that is in the Hebrew) they stood early, in the fuller and later one they stood in their present position, and Jeremiah inserted then the clause of Jeremiah 25:13, which implies that they existed in some other part of the book, "all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations." It was in this very year (compare Jeremiah 25:1 with Jeremiah 36:1) that Jeremiah was directed to write in a regular book all he had prophesied from the first against Judah and foreign, nations. We saw above that Jeremiah 21; Jeremiah 35-36, are out of chronological order. The whole may be divided into (1) Jeremiah year. Jeremiah took advantage of the embassy sent by Zedekiah to send his letter to the captives (Jeremiah 29). Even among the captives at Babylon were false prophets, Ahab, Zedekiah, and Shemaiah (the writer to Zephaniah at Jerusalem that he should imprison Jeremiah as "mad"), who held out delusive hopes of a speedy return. Therefore, Jeremiah announces their doom. Six whole years before Jerusalem's fall Jeremiah wrote the prophecy of Babylon's own doom, for Seraiah to take to Babylon when he went there on behalf of Zedekiah (margin, Jeremiah 51:59-64), and therewith to console the captives. The Jews say, "the spirit of Jeremiah dwelt afterward in Zechariah"; Matthew (Jeremiah 27:9) therefore quotes the words of Zechariah as Jeremiah's. His protests against the priests and prophets answer to our Lord's against the scribes and Pharisees (Matthew 23); his lamentations over his doomed country correspond to the Saviour's tears over Jerusalem. The picture of his sufferings in Lamentations 1:12 is antitypically realized in Messiah alone. The subjective and the elegiac elements preponderate in him. His Hebrew is tinged, as was to be expected, with Chaldaism. Sheshach (which, on the Kabalistic system of making the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet express the first, would be Babel) is supposed to prove his using that mystic system (Jeremiah 25:26); but in Jeremiah 51:41 there can be no design of concealment, for he mentions expressly Babylon; the word is rather from Shech the Babylonian goddess, during whose feast Cyrus took the city. Pathos and sympathy with the suffering are hischaracteristics. As Ezekiel views the nation's sins as opposed to righteousness, so Jeremiah as productive of misery. Ezekiel is as marked by firmness as Jeremiah is by delicate sensitiveness. His heaping of phrase on phrase, and repeating of stereotyped forms, are due to his affected feelings; but in the rhythmical parts, and against foreign nations, he is concise, sublime, and energetic. Division.-The various parts are prefaced by the formula, "The word which came to Jeremiah from Jehovah." Notes of time mark other divisions more or less historical. In the poetical parts there are 23 sections, divided into strophes of seven or nine verses, market by "Jehovah said also unto me. "The five books thus are: I. Introduction: chap. 1. II. Reproofs of the Jews, seven sections, Jeremiah 2-24: