14Then Zedekiah the king sent and had Jeremiah the prophet brought to him at the third entrance of the house of theLord. And the king said to Jeremiah, “I willask you something. Hide nothing from me.” 15Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declareitto you, will you ...
A similarly skeptical idea is expressed in the Hebrew Bible in the book of the prophet Jeremiah, who warned people not to listen to rival prophets who confuse their own personal feelings with a truly divine revelation. God told Jeremiah, “I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy...
Jeremiah 23 New International Version The Righteous Branch 23 “Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord. 2 Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to the shepherds who tend my people: “Becaus...
Isaiah is the first of the Major Prophets. When God had a message for the people, He spoke to them through prophets: men moved by the Holy Spirit to speak on God’s behalf. Isaiah is the only Major Prophet whose story takes place before the fall of Jerusalem. While Jeremiah and Ezekiel...
When they heard the judgment declared against them, the people of Nineveh repented. God had said that He would destroy them, but because they repented, He did not do what He said He would do. God lays out the principle by which men can understand Jonah's plot twist. As Jeremiah quotes...
24.Jeremiah Jeremiah, the “weeping prophet,” warns Judah in the last years of the southern kingdom: he serves as a (largely ignored) guide to Judah as they fall into Babylonian captivity. 25.Lamentations(technically poetry) This small collection of poems laments the fall of Jerusalem, but ...
In a curious but intriguing recent book (Hoffmann and Schmidt 1997), the two authors (one a famous chemist, the other an expert on the Mosaic laws of Judaism) devote a chapter to the subtleties of “Pure/Impure”, prefacing it with an invocation by the prophet Jeremiah: “I have made ...
What do the historical books tell The story of the nation of Israel Who are the prophecy books written by, why? A prophet, o call the people back to their relationship with God How many major prophets are there 4 Who are the major prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel How many mino...
Xerxes[a] (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian[b] kingdom— 2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would ...
Jeremiah 51 King James Version 51 Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty ...