0 Jeremiah Topical Outline

I will bring upon this city ... because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words. 19:15

Trivia: When did Jeremiah became a prophet?

The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah

1 Jeremiah, the unborn prophet (1-5)

     God put words in Jeremiah's mouth (6-19)

2 In vain have I smitten your children (1-37)

3 A whore's forehead (1-25)

4 Circumcise the foreskin of your heart (1-4)

     The destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way (5-31)

5 Try to find a good person (1-6)

     Everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife (7-14)

     Tremble at my presence (15-31)

6 Their ear is uncircumcised (1-10)

     I will bring evil upon this people (11-30)

7 You've got to change your evil ways (1-15)

    Don't pray for these people (16-20)

    I never asked for animal sacrifices (21-28)

    The Valley of Slaughter (29-34)

8 Bring out your bones! (1-6)

    I'll give their wives to other men (7-11)

    They didn't even blush (12-16)

    I'll send cockatrices to bite you (17-22)

9 I wish my head was filled with water (1-2)

     A den of dragons (3-14)

     Like dung on the ground (15-24)

     Uncircumcised hearts (25-26)

10 Learn not the way of the heathen (1-25)

11 I will bring evil upon them (1-13)

    Don't pray for these people (14-19)

    Let me see your vengeance on them (20-23)

12 Prepare them for the day of slaughter (1-6)

     The sword of the LORD shall devour (7-17)

13 Jeremiah's girdle (1-11)

     I will dash them one against another (12-21)

     I'll discover your skirts on your face (22-27)

14 Dragons and drought (1-10)

     Don't pray for these people (11-13)

     The prophets prophesy lies in my name (14-22)

15 Because of Manasseh (1-5)

    I'm tired of repenting (6)

    I'll kill their children (7-21)

16 Don't get married and have a family (1-4)

     Don't mourn for them (5-9)

     Because your fathers have forsaken me (10-21)

17 The sin of Judah is written with a pen (1-3)

     God's anger will burn forever (4-18)

     Don't carry things on the sabbath day (19-27)

18 The potter's house (1-10)

     I frame evil against you (11-17)

     Jeremiah's prayer: Pour out their blood (18-23)

19 Eating the flesh of family and friends (1-15)

20 Pashur arrests Jeremiah (1-2)

     God changes Pashur's name to Magormissabib (3-6)

     Jeremiah curses the day he was born (7-18)

21 I myself will fight against you (1-14)

22 Do no violence to the stranger (1-17)

     Jehoiakim will be buried like a donkey (18-30)

23 THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS (1-9)

     I am like a drunken man (9-10)

     I am against the prophets (11-40)

24 Two baskets of figs (1-10)

25 Seventy years (1-14)

    The wine cup of God's fury (15-31)

    They shall be dung upon the ground (32-38)

26 Jeremiah's Temple prophecy (1-7)

     The trial of Jeremiah (8-19)

     The prophet Urijah (20-24)

27 Jeremiah's yoke (1-22)

28 Hananiah, the good news prophet (1-9)

     Hananiah breaks Jeremiah's yoke (10-14)

     God kills Hananiah (15-17)

29 Jeremiah's letter to the people in Babylon (1-23)

     Jeremiah's letter to Shemaiah (24-32)

30 Write all the words that I've spoken to you in a book (1-24)

31 Some more words to write down (1-40)

32 Jeremiah in prison (1-15)

     Jeremiah's prayer (16-25)

     God's response (26-44)

33 The word of God comes to Jeremiah a second time (1-26)

34 God tells Zedekiah about his death (1-7)

    Zedekiah frees the slaves (8-10)

    The freed slaves are enslaved again (11)

    God's kills the people (for enslaving their former slaves) (12-22)

35 The Rechabites refuse to drink wine in God's house (1-11)

     God will do all the evil things that he said he'd do (12-19)

36 The first book of Jeremiah (1-19)

     Second Jeremiah (20-32)

37 Zedekiah asks Jeremiah to pray for him (1-14)

     Jeremiah goes to prison (15-21)

38 Jeremiah is thrown into a dry well (1-6)

     An Ethiopian eunuch saves Jeremiah (7-13)

     Jeremiah and God threaten Zedekiah (14-28)

39 The fall of Jerusalem (1-18)

40 Jeremiah is set free (1-5)

    Johanan and Gedaliah (6-16)

41 Ishmael assassinates Gedaliah (1-18)

42 We'll do whatever God wants: good or evil (1-6)

     Wherever you go, God will kill you (7-22)

43 The people go to Egypt (1-7)

     Jeremiah hides some big rocks for God (8-13)

44 God will kill every Jew in Egypt (1-14)

    The Queen of Heaven (15-19)

    God swears to do evil (20-30)

45 Stop complaining, Baruch (1-5)

46 Against the Gentiles (1-28)

47 Against the Philistines (1-6)

48 Against Moab (1-47)

49 Concerning the Ammonites (1-6)

     Concerning Edom (7-22)

     Concerning Damascus (23-27)

     Concerning Kedar and Hazor (28-35)

     Upon Elam (36-39)

50 Against Babylon (1-3)

    Israel and Judah will go home (4-10)

    God will destroy Babylon (11-46)

51 God will destroy Babylon (1-58)

    Jeremiah's book is thrown into the Euphrates (59-64)

52 The fall of Jerusalem (1-30)

    Jehoiachin is set free (31-34)

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