by Justin Marple | Mar 1, 2016 | Book of 12 Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
Jonah is a very short and yet very stylized story. The text naturally divides into four short chapters. The fourth one even refers to words that are chronologically set in the first one: “O YHWH, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is...
by Justin Marple | Jul 28, 2013 | Jeremiah Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
Jeremiah 52 then is mostly quotes from Kings. Jeremiah 52:1-27 is from 2 Kings 24:18-25:21 and Jeremiah 52:31-34 is from 2 Kings 25:27-30. The portion that is skipped is the part of the narrative that we have heard in more detail already in Jeremiah. It concerns...
by Justin Marple | Jul 24, 2013 | Jeremiah Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
Jeremiah 46-51 are oracles against foreign nations. An oracle is a particular kind of prophecy – it is a statement of divine warfare usually denouncing a foreign nation (as with these chapters). Jeremiah’s oracles are against Egypt, Philistia, Moab, Ammon,...
by Justin Marple | Jul 21, 2013 | Jeremiah Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
Chapter 37 continues to give us the story of Jeremiah. Now we fast forward again to the reign of Zedekiah. The text begins by noting that Nebuchadnezzar made Zedekiah king of Judah in the place of Jehoiakim’s son Coniah. This fulfills what the...
by Justin Marple | Jul 17, 2013 | Jeremiah Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
Chapter 34 opens, “The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH” and the setting is again Nebuchadnezzar’s siege of Jerusalem. This is probably the longest portion of the book so far where we have seen the historical markers not jumping all over the place....
by Justin Marple | Jul 15, 2013 | Jeremiah Commentary, Latter Prophets, OT Prophets Commentary, TEACHING
The next chapter we see the command to write the prophecies in a book. “Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you” (Jeremiah 30:2). The chapter includes phrases like “days are coming” and “it shall come to pass in that day.” On that day...
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