Kings

We’ve been going through the book of Jeremiah in conjunction with the study of the kings because Jeremiah lived and ministered during the time of Josiah and Josiah’s sons and he was one of three major prophets that are recorded in the scriptures that were used of God to minister to the nation of Israel as it was being taken away into captivity and as it was taken into captivity. Last week we looked at chapter 10 and in chapter…

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: 2 To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. 3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah,…

2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 3 Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord. 4 Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of…