SMYTH & HELWYS BIBLE COMMENTARY

JEREMIAH

TERENCE E. FRETHEIM

Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

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ISBN 978-1-57312-932-9

Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary: Jeremiah

Publication Staff

Publisher and President

Cecil P. Staton, Jr.

Executive Vice-President

David Cassady

Vice-President, Editorial

Lex Horton

Senior Editor

Mark K. McElroy

Book Editor

P. Keith Gammons

Art Director and Book Designer

Jim Burt

Assistant Editors

Griff Hogan, Kelley Land, Erin Smith

Project Editor

R. Scott Nash

Mercer University

Macon, Georgia

Old Testament

General Editor

Samuel E. Balentine

Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Virginia

Area

Old Testament Editors

Mark E. Biddle

Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Virginia

Kandy Queen-Sutherland

Stetson University

Deland, Florida

Kenneth G. Hoglund

Wake Forest University

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

New Testament

General Editor

R. Alan Culpepper

McAfee School of Theology Mercer University

Atlanta, Georgia

Area

New Testament Editors

R. Scott Nash

Mercer University

Macon, Georgia

Richard B. Vinson

Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Virginia

Art Editor

Fred Whitehurst

Georgia State University

Atlanta, Georgia

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. The Call of Jeremiah

Jer 1:1–19

2. Israel’s Infidelity

Jer 2:1–3:5

3. Repentance and Return

Jer 3:6–4:4

4. Disaster Threatens Israel

Jer 4:5–31

5. Why Has God Done All These Things to Us?

Jer 5:1–31

6. Take Warning, Jerusalem

Jer 6:1–30

7. The Temple Sermon

Jer 7:1–8:3

8. Is There No Balm in Gilead?

Jer 8:4–9:1

9. The Laments Intensify

Jer 9:2–26

10. A Universal Frame of Reference

Jer 10:1–25

11. A Covenant Violated

Jer 11:1–17

12. Jeremiah’s Laments and God’s Responses

Jer 11:18–12:17

13. Symbolic Actions and Violent Words

Jer 13:1–27

14. It Is Too Late!

Jer 14:1–15:9

15. More Laments from Jeremiah

Jer 15:10–21

16. The Shape of the Life of a Prophet

Jer 16:1–21

17. In Whom Do You Trust?

Jer 17:1–27

18. The Potter and the Plots

Jer 18:1–23

19. A Broken Jug and Its Effects

Jer 19:1–20:6

20. Jeremiah’s Final Lament

Jer 20:7–18

21. Oracles to Kings and People

Jer 21:1–14

22. The Trouble with Kings

Jer 22:1–23:8

23. True and False Prophets

Jer 23:9–40

24. Vision of the Good and the Bad Figs

Jer 24:1–10

25. Summary Judgments Against the Nations

Jer 25:1–38

26. The Temple Sermon Revisited

Jer 26:1–24

27. The Yoke of Submission to Babylon

Jer 27:1–22

28. Jeremiah and Hananiah

Jer 28:1–17

29. Jeremiah’s Letters to the Exiles

Jer 29:1–32

30. Promised Restoration for Israel and Judah

Jer 30:1–24

31. Restoration and New Covenant

Jer 31:1–40

32. Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord? YES!

Jer 32:1–44

33. Restoration and Secure Promises

Jer 33:1–26

34. Announcements of Judgment to Zedekiah and Israel

Jer 34:1–22

35. Commendation of the Rechabites

Jer 35:1–19

36. The Scrolls of Jeremiah

Jer 36:1–32

37. Encounters Between Jeremiah and Hezekiah

Jer 37:1–21

38. Jeremiah Among Foes and Friends

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