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02/07/2024

Jeremiah 27-29

Outline

VIII. Jeremiah’s Controversy with the False Prophets (26:1–29:32)

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1. Jeremiah’s Symbolic Yoke (27:1–22)

(1) Warning to the Nations to Serve Nebuchadnezzar (27:1–11)

(2) Warning to King Zedekiah to Serve Nebuchadnezzar (27:12–15)

(3) Warning to the Priests and All the People (27:16–22)

1. Conflict between Jeremiah and Hananiah (28:1–17)

(1) Hananiah’s False Prophecy (28:1–4)

(2) Jeremiah’s Response to Hananiah (28:5–9)

(3) Hananiah’s Symbolic Act (28:10–11)

(4) Jeremiah’s Denunciation of Hananiah (28:12–17)

1. Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles (29:1–32)

(1) Sending of the Letter (29:1–3)

(2) A Warning against the False Prophets (29:4–23)

(3) Jeremiah’s Response to Shemaiah’s Letter (29:24–28)

(4) A Message to the Exiles about Shemaiah (29:29–32)

Outline from F. B. Huey, Jeremiah, Lamentations, vol. 16, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1993), 223 ff.

Reading from The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011.