Jeremiah- Introduction

Additional Details

• Author: Jeremiah
• Audience: The people of Judah
• Original Hebrew Name: ירמיהוּ
• Translated Greek Name: Ἱερεμίας
• Common English Name: Jeremiah
• Transliteration: Yirmeyahu
• Meaning: Exaltation of Yah
• Date Created: c 626-586 BCE
• Content Reference Time: c 626-586 BCE
• Key Individuals:
  • Josiah, King of Judah
  • Jehoahaz, King of Judah
  • Jehoiakim, King of Judah
  • Jehoiachin, King of Judah
  • Zedekiah, King of Judah
  • Baruch
  • Ebed-Melech
  • King Nebuchadnezzar
  • Recabites
• Key Themes:
  • G-d's judgment on Judah (Jeremiah 1-45)
  • G-d's judgment on the nations (Jeremiah 46-52)
• Date Canonized: c 499-100 BCE
• Abstract:

  The book of Jeremiah, like Isaiah, is both a historical narrative and prophecy. The prophet Jeremiah, who is sometimes called the "weeping prophet" because of his sorrow over the sins of his people, wrote this book focused on the southern kingdom of Judah. Jeremiah dictated his prophecies to a scribe named Baruch, who recorded G-d's words of the coming judgment of G-d.  Jeremiah warns of G-d's pending judgment, and at the same time, he also delivers G-d's call to repent and return to Him and His ways. G-d instructs Jeremiah to "pluck up and to break down" as well as "build and plant."  Jeremiah 31:31-34 records the declaration of the New Covenant, where G-d promises to write His Law upon the hearts of the reunited house of Israel and Judah, and He shall "remember their sins no more."

• Location Created: In and around Jerusalem
• Content Location: Anathoth, Jerusalem, Ramah, Egypt
• Teaches:
  • G-d judges sin.
  • Sin is punished.
  • G-d is sovereign over everyone.
  • G-d will give us new hearts.
• Chapters: 52
• Verses: 1364