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Jeremiah: Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary

Alastair Roberts

Jeremiah: Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary

February 16, 2022
Alastair Roberts
Alastair Roberts

*CONTENTS*

00:00:00 - Chapter 1: Jeremiah's Call

00:17:33 - Chapter 2: Israel's Unfaithfulness

00:34:43 - Chapter 3: Return, Faithless Israel

00:49:00 - Chapter 4: Judah's Coming Destruction

01:03:24 - Chapter 5: Jerusalem's Stubborn Impenitence

01:12:54 - Chapter 6: Disaster Approaches

01:22:50 - Chapter 7: Jeremiah's Temple Sermon

01:32:00 - Chapter 8: Jeremiah's Grief for the People

01:41:00 - Chapter 9: Lamenting for the Land

01:52:54 - Chapter 10: The Vanity of the Idols of the Nations

02:03:17 - Chapter 11: A Broken Covenant

02:13:04 - Chapter 12: Jeremiah's Complaint

02:24:21 - Chapter 13: The Ruined Loincloth

02:35:36 - Chapter 14: Famine, Sword, and Pestilence

02:43:50 - Chapter 15: Who Will Have Pity on You, O Jerusalem?

02:54:04 - Chapter 16: Restoration Promised

03:02:38 - Chapter 17: Judah's Sin

03:12:21 - Chapter 18: Potter and Clay

03:20:41 - Chapter 19: The Broken Vessel

03:29:43 - Chapter 20: Pashhur Mistreats Jeremiah

03:37:31 - Chapter 21: Nebuchadnezzar's Destruction of Jerusalem Foretold

03:44:08 - Chapter 22: Message for the Sons of Josiah

03:55:40 - Chapter 23: The Righteous Branch

04:09:25 - Chapter 24: Good and Bad Figs

04:17:32 - Chapter 25: Seventy Years of Bondage

04:27:35 - Chapter 26: Jeremiah Delivered From Death

04:37:13 - Chapter 27: Nebuchadnezzar's Yoke

04:44:37 - Chapter 28: Hananiah

04:53:02 - Chapter 29: Jeremiah Writes to the Exiles

05:03:33 - Chapter 30: Restoration Promised

05:14:43 - Chapter 31: The New Covenant

05:35:36 - Chapter 32: Jeremiah Buys a Field

05:50:38 - Chapter 33: The Lord's Covenant With David

06:00:08 - Chapter 34: Zedekiah's Fate

06:07:43 - Chapter 35: The Rechabites

06:15:46 - Chapter 36: Jehoiakim Burns the Scroll

06:24:34 - Chapter 37: Jeremiah Imprisoned

06:31:32 - Chapter 38: Jeremiah Rescued from the Cistern

06:39:50 - Chapter 39: The Fall of Jerusalem

06:51:23 - Chapter 40: The Remnant in Jerusalem

06:59:34 - Chapter 41: The Assassination of Gedaliah

07:07:18 - Chapter 42: Warning Against Going to Egypt

07:15:29 - Chapter 43: Jeremiah Taken to Egypt

07:23:53 - Chapter 44: Condemnation of Idolatry

07:33:43 - Chapter 45: The Lord's Message to Baruch

07:41:59 - Chapter 46: Judgment on Egypt

07:56:18 - Chapter 47: Judgment on Philistia

08:02:42 - Chapter 48: Judgment on Moab

08:15:24 - Chapter 49: Judgment on Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, Hazor, and Elam

08:28:45 - Chapter 50: Judgment on Babylon

08:46:13 - Chapter 51: Babylon's Destruction Foretold

09:02:33 - Chapter 52: Jerusalem's Fall

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