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Without denying the legitimacy of this approach, this essay proposes a theological reading of Jeremiah that recognizes the gap between perfect divine justice and the horrific calamity that Babylon inflicted on Judah, and yet seeks to incorporate Jeremiah's rhetoric of human culpability into a coherent theological framework that speaks to matters...
- Michael Graves
The cata-strophic events leading to the downfall of Judah and its last king, Zedekiah, is recorded in five different documents: II Kings, II Chronicles, the Lachish Letters, some passages of the Book of Jeremiah, and Ezekiel Chapter 17.
Jeremiah 6 concluded Jeremiah’s second prophetic message to the kingdom of Judah, that began in Jeremiah 3:6. This message was given during the days of King Josiah, who reigned over Judah from 627 BC down to 609 BC.
Jeremiah was not to intercede, for Judah and Jerusalem, that the Lord would relent from the calamity that He had planned. Look at these verses: As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you (Jeremiah 7:16).
The prophet Jeremiah came early in Jehoiakim’s reign, saying that repentance would bring the cancelation of impending calamity. Otherwise God would make the temple a desolation and Jerusalem “a curse to all the nations of the earth” (Jeremiah 26:1–6).
Sep 6, 2015 · When does God reward and when does God inflict punishment and why? A comparison of the books of Kings and Chronicles demonstrates that the Chronicler, troubled by the theology of Kings in which children can be punished for the sins of their parents, rewrote Israel’s history. | Hartley Koschitzky
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Jun 20, 2003 · So God pronounces calamity on Judah. But remember that He had promised before that this calamity would not come until after Josiah's death (2 Kings 22:16-20). And eventually, his death came—13 years after his great Passover, and three years after the fall of Nineveh.
