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Matthew Poole’s Bible Commentary

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Jeremiah Matthew Poole

Chapters

  1. Jeremiah’s Calling and Divine Appointment.
  2. Israel’s Unfaithfulness; Call to Repentance.
  3. Call to Return to God; Israel’s Waywardness.
  4. Impending Judgment and Call for Repentance.
  5. The People’s Sin and Coming Judgment.
  6. Imminent Judgment; Call to Flee from Danger.
  7. Temple Sermons; Rejection of Empty Rituals.
  8. Judgment and Sorrow over Israel’s Sin.
  9. Lament over Judah’s Sin; Call for Truth.
  10. God’s Sovereignty versus Idolatry; Judgment on Nations.
  11. The Covenant Broken; Conspiracy against Jeremiah.
  12. Jeremiah’s Complaint; Divine Response about Judgment.
  13. Symbolic Acts Illustrating Judah’s Sin and Judgment.
  14. Drought; Jeremiah’s Plea for Mercy.
  15. God’s Judgment; Jeremiah’s Lament and Call for Deliverance.
  16. Restrictions on Jeremiah; Prophecy of Judgment and Restoration.
  17. Judah’s Sin and its Consequences; Blessing of Trust in God.
  18. The Potter’s House; Israel’s Choice and Consequences.
  19. Symbolic Act of the Broken Jar; Judgment.
  20. Jeremiah’s Suffering and Complaint; Confidence in God.
  21. Judgment against Jerusalem; Promise of Deliverance.
  22. Judgment on Judah’s Kings; Call for Justice.
  23. The Righteous Branch; False Prophets and True Shepherds.
  24. Vision of Good and Bad Figs; Exile’s Outcome.
  25. Seventy Years of Captivity; Judgment on Nations.
  26. Jeremiah’s Message; Opposition and Deliverance.
  27. The Yoke of Babylon; Warning to Surrounding Nations.
  28. False Prophet Hananiah’s Prophecy and Judgment.
  29. Letter to the Exiles; Promise of Restoration.
  30. Restoration and Future Blessings for Israel.
  31. New Covenant and Restoration; Future Hope.
  32. Purchase of the Field; Confirmation of God’s Promise.
  33. Promises of Restoration and Righteous Leadership.
  34. Judgment on Zedekiah; Broken Covenant.
  35. The Rechabites’ Example; Judgment on Judah.
  36. Baruch’s Scroll; Jehoiakim’s Rejection and Destruction.
  37. Jeremiah’s Imprisonment; Warnings to Zedekiah.
  38. Jeremiah’s Trial and Rescue from the Pit.
  39. Jerusalem’s Fall and Exile; Jeremiah’s Release.
  40. Gedaliah Appointed Governor; Warning of Further Invasion.
  41. Murder of Gedaliah; Flight to Egypt.
  42. Jeremiah’s Warning against Going to Egypt.
  43. Flight to Egypt; Idolatry Condemned.
  44. Judgment on Those Who Worshipped Idols in Egypt.
  45. Message to Baruch; Reassurance amid Trials.
  46. Prophecies against Egypt and its Allies.
  47. Prophecy against the Philistines.
  48. Prophecy against Moab and its Destruction.
  49. Prophecies against Ammon, Edom, Damascus, and Elam.
  50. Prophecy against Babylon; Future Restoration of Israel.
  51. Further Prophecy against Babylon; Call to Flee.
  52. Fall of Jerusalem; Final Note on Zedekiah.

The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah

The Argument

IT was the great unhappiness of this prophet to be a physician to, but that could not save, a dying state, their disease still prevailing against the remedy; and indeed no wonder that all things were so much out of order, when the book of the law had been wanting above sixty years. He was called to be a teacher in his youth, in the days of good Josiah, being sanctified and ordained by God to his prophetical office from his mother's womb, Jeremiah 1.5 in a very evil time, though the people afterward proved much worse upon the death of that good king. He setting himself against the torrent of the corruptions of the times, was always opposed and unkindly treated by his ungrateful countrymen, as also by false prophets, and the priests, princes, and people, who encouraged all their impieties and unrighteousness. At length he threatened their destruction and captivity by the Chaldeans, which he lived to see, but foretells their return after seventy years; all which accordingly came to pass. He doth also, notwithstanding his dreadful threatenings, intermix divers comfortable promises of the Messiah, and the days of the gospel; he denounceth also heavy judgments against the heathens nations that had afflicted God's people, both such as were near, and also more remote, as Egypt, the Philistines, Moab, Edomites, Ammonites, Damascus, Kedar, Hazor, Elam, but especially Babylon herself, that is made so great a type of the antichristian Babylon in the New Testament. Upon the murder of Gedaliah, whom the Chaldeans had made governor of Judea, he was forcibly against his will carried into Egypt, where (after he had prophesied from first to last between forty and fifty years) probably he died; some say he was stoned.

Whatever else we hear mentioned of his writings, they are either counterfeit, as the Prophecies of Baruch, etc., or it is likely we have the sum of them in this book, though possibly some of his sermons might have had some enlargements in that roll which, by his appointment, was written by Baruch, Jeremiah 36.2, etc.