Jeremiah 1

IV. 5—VI. 30. XXV. 1—28. II. 1.—III. 5. XXXVI. 1—32. III. 6.—IV. 4. XLV. 1-5. XVII. 19—27. XII. 14—17. XLVII. 1—7. X. 17—25. Under Jehoiakim. Under Jechoniah. QT — bap VE Leek (Jeremiah 13:1-27). ee Under Zedekiah. XIV. 1.—XV. 21. XVI. 1.—XVII. 18. XL. 1-17. XVIII. 1—23. XI. 18—XII. 13. XIX) LEX. 13. XXIV. 1—10. XX. 14-18. XXIX. 1-32. Chap. I. Ver. 1—19. Prefatory chapter, with the call of Jeremiah to the prophetic office—This solemn designation of the prophet is stated to have been in the 13th year of the young king Josiah, at which time he speaks of himself as a child, (ver. 6.) and probably was little more, as we find him neither named nor consulted in that king’s reforms. (See (2 Kings 22:14).) Like Moses of old time, “he seems to have had a deep sense of his own inability, which is generally the case with those whom God calls to services of difficulty and importance.

But the Lord, in a visible appearance, touched his lips, and put words into his mouth. The high commission given him is thus expressed: “See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms;” by which we are not to understand the conferring any authority; but in the prophetic style, God’s servants are said to do what they merely predict. His pulling down or putting up, was merely the determinations of Chap. I. Ver. 1. Words of Jeremiah.—(The three first verses form the title to the whole book; and were probably added by Ezra when he collected and arranged the Sacred Books, and placed them in the order in which they are generally found in Hebrew Bibles. |—Bagster.

XEIX. 34—39, XXX. 1.—XXXI. 40. XX. 1—14. Delivered in Egypt. XXXIV. 1-7, Chap. XLII, 8—13. XXXVII. 1—10. XLIV. 1—30. XXXIV. 8—22. XLVI. 13—28, Relative to strange nations. XXXIX. 15—18. (Jeremiah 46:1). and XLIX. 1—6, XXXII. 1—44. XLVIII. 1—47. XXXII, 1—10, X. 7—22. XXXIX. 1—10. XLIX. 23—27. (Jeremiah 22:1).—XXIII. 8, After the destruction of Jerusalem.; ne Chap. XX XIX. 11—14. Historical appendix. XL. 1.—XLI. 18. (Jeremiah 52:1-34).

What God was about to do, which was farther explained to him in two preparatory visions. The “rod,” or branch “of almond tree,” which is said to be the first tree that blossoms, was evidently intended to signify the speedy accomplishment of the judgment he was commissioned to predict; and “the seething (or boiling) pot” their great severity; and both being turned from the north, farther intimated the quarter from which they were to come, namely, Chaldea, which was north of Jerusalem.

The concluding verses at once point out the arduous nature of his work, and assure him of strength and support to perform it. He shall be an iron pillar, or a brazen wall, whom the Lord supports and fortifies. This first chapter is considered as prose, but the following opens in poetic form.

The Lord raises up and qualifies proper instruments for his work, in every age and circumstance of his church: and when arranged the Sacred Books, and placed them in the order in which they are generally found in Hebrew Bibles. |—Bagster.