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Book Introduction

Jeremiah

Written by

The Author

The 'weeping — called as a teenager, he spent 40 years delivering a message nobody wanted to hear

Attributed to with his scribe recording his words. The book combines prophecy, narrative, and confessional poetry. Some later editorial arrangement is likely.

Written

600s BC

Audience

The kingdom of in its final decades before exile

Purpose

To warn Judah of coming judgment, call them to repentance, and promise that God would establish a new written on their hearts

What's It About?

is the prophet who watched his nation die. For 40 years he warned to repent, was ignored, beaten, thrown in a cistern, and accused of treason. He watched burn and the fall. But in the middle of all that darkness, he delivered one of the most revolutionary promises in Scripture: God would make a new — not on stone tablets, but written on human hearts.

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