43 When Jeremiah had finished telling the people all the words of the Lord their God—everything the Lord had sent him to tell them— 2 Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The Lord our God has not sent you...
7 And they took counsel and bought with them the potter’s field to bury strangers in. 8 Therefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. 9 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the pric...
Saint Fred was not in love with television at first, but saw that it had potential to shape the people who tuned in. He went to work for NBC, and then his local Pittsburgh affiliate, trying his hand at children’s shows and production. While doing all of this he also answered a call...
I awoke this morning the first time at around 6. It was dark and I heard the gentle patter of rain outside. My first words were “thank you God for the new day, let everything that has breath praise the Lord, squirrels, chipmunks, cows, chickens.” I don’t know why I thought of...
Study Bible Book ◦ Chapter When the Chaldean army withdrew from JerusalemThe Chaldean army, also known as the Babylonians, was a dominant force in the ancient Near East during the time of Jeremiah. Their withdrawal from Jerusalem was a temporary strategic move rather than a permanent retreat....
I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”NASB 1977 I Was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”Legacy Standard Bible A Song of Ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of...
Jeremiah stood alone, but he was proven correct, when Jerusalem was surrounded and starved to death, and then destroyed. This is what Jeremiah wrote in the small book of Lamentations just after Jerusalem was destroyed: My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within, my heart i...
I also wrote about one of Jeremiah’s contemporaries, Ezekiel, who prophesied in the country of Babylon where he had already been deported to, prior to the fall of Jerusalem, and how he was called to be a “watchman” to warn the people of the coming disaster. See: ...
“However, as it is written: ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived’ — the things God has prepared for those who love him.”1 Corinthians 2:9(NIV) I was sitting on the balcony, listening to excited squeals and splashes as children pl...
moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar (The LORD of Hosts is His name): ‘If those ordinances depart from before Me,’ says the LORD, ‘then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever.'”(...