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Jeremiah: chapter summaries

A prophet’s warnings before Jerusalem falls, and the promise of a new covenant.

52 chapters · Old Testament

  1. 1 Jeremiah is called
  2. 2 Israel forsakes the Lord
  3. 3 Faithless Israel called to return
  4. 4 Return; disaster from the north
  5. 5 No honest person found in Jerusalem
  6. 6 The siege of Jerusalem foretold
  7. 7 The temple sermon
  8. 8 Judgment on the people; no balm in Gilead
  9. 9 Jeremiah weeps; boast in the Lord
  10. 10 The Lord and the idols
  11. 11 The broken covenant; plot against Jeremiah
  12. 12 Why do the wicked prosper?
  13. 13 The linen belt and the wineskins
  14. 14 Drought and false prophets
  15. 15 Jeremiah’s complaint; God’s answer
  16. 16 Jeremiah forbidden to marry
  17. 17 The deceitful heart; keep the Sabbath
  18. 18 The potter and the clay
  19. 19 The broken jar
  20. 20 Pashhur; Jeremiah’s lament
  21. 21 Zedekiah asks for help
  22. 22 Judgment on the kings
  23. 23 The righteous Branch; false prophets
  24. 24 Two baskets of figs
  25. 25 Seventy years of exile
  26. 26 Jeremiah on trial
  27. 27 The yoke of Babylon
  28. 28 Hananiah the false prophet
  29. 29 A letter to the exiles
  30. 30 Restoration promised
  31. 31 The new covenant
  32. 32 Jeremiah buys a field
  33. 33 Promise of restoration
  34. 34 Freed slaves taken back
  35. 35 The Rechabites
  36. 36 The scroll burned
  37. 37 Jeremiah imprisoned
  38. 38 Jeremiah in the cistern
  39. 39 Jerusalem falls
  40. 40 Gedaliah made governor
  41. 41 Gedaliah murdered
  42. 42 Warning not to go to Egypt
  43. 43 Judah goes to Egypt
  44. 44 Idolatry in Egypt
  45. 45 A word to Baruch
  46. 46 Oracles against Egypt
  47. 47 Oracle against the Philistines
  48. 48 Oracle against Moab
  49. 49 Oracles against Ammon, Edom and others
  50. 50 Oracle against Babylon
  51. 51 Babylon’s fall
  52. 52 The fall of Jerusalem