Author: Norm

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 43 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: All the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to settle there.’ But Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians, so they may kill us or…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 42 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with everything the LORD your God sends you to tell us. Whether it is favorable or unfavorable, we will obey the LORD our God, to whom we are sending…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 41 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: While they were eating together there, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed as governor over the land. Ishmael also killed…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 40 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: The king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam as governor over the land and had put him in charge of the men, women and children who were the poorest in the land and who had not been carried into exile to Babylon [Jeremiah 40:7] No doubt there were many times when…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 39 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: But I will rescue you on that day, declares the LORD; you will not be given into the hands of those you fear. I will save you; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the LORD. [Jeremiah 39:17-18] This must have…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 38 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: “He is in your hands,” King Zedekiah answered. “The king can do nothing to oppose you. [Jeremiah 38:5] In this chapter we see again how weak a king Zedekiah is. He hands over Jeremiah to the one group of people who want to ‘silence’ Jeremiah, and then gives permission to another group to…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 37 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Jeremiah was put into a vaulted cell in a dungeon, where he remained a long time. Then King Zedekiah sent for him and had him brought to the palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there any word from the LORD?” [Jeremiah 37:16-17] I find this part fascinating, that the king is looking…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 36 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: After the king burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: “Take another scroll and write on it all the words that were on the first scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah burned up. [Jeremiah 36:27-28] We do not, by…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 35 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Jonadab son of Recab ordered his sons not to drink wine and this command has been kept. To this day they do not drink wine, because they obey their forefather’s command. But I have spoken to you again and again, yet you have not obeyed me. [Jeremiah 35:14] The Recabites (or Kenites) were…

SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 34 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Recently you repented and did what is right in my sight: Each of you proclaimed freedom to your own people. You even made a covenant before me in the house that bears my Name. But now you have turned around and profaned my name; each of you has taken back the male…