Book of Jeremiah bible study chapters 37 through 45

            Here are the next nine chapters of the book of Jeremiah which include the preparations to and the actual capture of Babylon, the king of Judah, Zedekiah, and even Jeremiah is captured too, all in fulfillment to prophecy. Jeremiah here too faces persecution and imprisonment from his enemies who hate the message he gives, and more than once refuse to hear the messages of Jeremiah even though they are from God for their own good but God protects Jeremiah from all of his enemies who would otherwise want to kill him. Here is a link to the bible study which contains the previous nine chapters of Jeremiah, namely chapters 28 through 36

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In chapter 37 of the book of Jeremiah, the Egyptian army comes up and then the Chaldean army withdraws from Jerusalem, then Jeremiah says the Chaldean army will be back to burn the city and then some who heard it accuse Jeremiah of being a deserter, which Jeremiah denies, but he is put in prison, then king Zedekiah releases the prophet to hear that the city will be captured by the Chaldeans

(Jeremiah 37:1)  Zedekiah the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.

(Jeremiah 37:2)  But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD that he spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.

(Jeremiah 37:3)  King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "Please pray for us to the LORD our God."

(Jeremiah 37:4)  Now Jeremiah was still going in and out among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison.

(Jeremiah 37:5)  The army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt. And when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.

(Jeremiah 37:6)  Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:

(Jeremiah 37:7)  "Thus says the LORD, God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me, 'Behold, Pharaoh's army that came to help you is about to return to Egypt, to its own land.

(Jeremiah 37:8)  And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city. They shall capture it and burn it with fire.

(Jeremiah 37:9)  Thus says the LORD, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, "The Chaldeans will surely go away from us," for they will not go away.

(Jeremiah 37:10)  For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.'"

(Jeremiah 37:11)  Now when the Chaldean army had withdrawn from Jerusalem at the approach of Pharaoh's army,

(Jeremiah 37:12)  Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive his portion there among the people.

(Jeremiah 37:13)  When he was at the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Irijah the son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are deserting to the Chaldeans."

(Jeremiah 37:14)  And Jeremiah said, "It is a lie; I am not deserting to the Chaldeans." But Irijah would not listen to him, and seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.

(Jeremiah 37:15)  And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.

(Jeremiah 37:16)  When Jeremiah had come to the dungeon cells and remained there many days,

(Jeremiah 37:17)  King Zedekiah sent for him and received him. The king questioned him secretly in his house and said, "Is there any word from the LORD?" Jeremiah said, "There is." Then he said, "You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon."

(Jeremiah 37:18)  Jeremiah also said to King Zedekiah, "What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people, that you have put me in prison?

(Jeremiah 37:19)  Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land'?

(Jeremiah 37:20)  Now hear, please, O my lord the king: let my humble plea come before you and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, lest I die there."

(Jeremiah 37:21)  So King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard. And a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers' street, until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

In Jeremiah chapter 38 Jeremiah then states the need of the people of Judah to give themselves to the Chaldeans to live and escape death but the people won’t hear the message then Jeremiah  again is put into a pit because of this by men who want to kill him because of his message then king Zedekiah sends a group of men to rescue Jeremiah from this predicament and Jeremiah then reiterates the early statement again urging the people surrendering to the Chaldeans but they seem not to heed also they do notemiah kill Jeremiah

(Jer 38:1)  Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah was saying to all the people,

(Jeremiah 38:2)  "Thus says the LORD: He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live. He shall have his life as a prize of war, and live.

(Jeremiah 38:3)  Thus says the LORD: This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and be taken."

(Jeremiah 38:4)  Then the officials said to the king, "Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm."

(Jeremiah 38:5)  King Zedekiah said, "Behold, he is in your hands, for the king can do nothing against you."

(Jeremiah 38:6)  So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king's son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

(Jeremiah 38:7)  When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern--the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate--

(Jeremiah 38:8)  Ebed-melech went from the king's house and said to the king,

(Jeremiah 38:9)  "My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city."

(Jeremiah 38:10)  Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, "Take thirty men with you from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies."

(Jeremiah 38:11)  So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the house of the king, to a wardrobe in the storehouse, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern by ropes.

(Jeremiah 38:12)  Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, "Put the rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes." Jeremiah did so.

(Jeremiah 38:13)  Then they drew Jeremiah up with ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

(Jeremiah 38:14)  King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance of the temple of the LORD. The king said to Jeremiah, "I will ask you a question; hide nothing from me."

(Jeremiah 38:15)  Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I tell you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me."

(Jeremiah 38:16)  Then King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, "As the LORD lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death or deliver you into the hand of these men who seek your life."

(Jeremiah 38:17)  Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.

(Jeremiah 38:18)  But if you do not surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand."

(Jeremiah 38:19)  King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest I be handed over to them and they deal cruelly with me."

(Jeremiah 38:20)  Jeremiah said, "You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the LORD in what I say to you, and it shall be well with you, and your life shall be spared.

(Jeremiah 38:21)  But if you refuse to surrender, this is the vision which the LORD has shown to me:

(Jeremiah 38:22)  Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying, "'Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mud, they turn away from you.'

(Jeremiah38:23)  All your wives and your sons shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned with fire."

(Jeremiah 38:24)  Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "Let no one know of these words, and you shall not die.

(Jeremiah 38:25)  If the officials hear that I have spoken with you and come to you and say to you, 'Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; hide nothing from us and we will not put you to death,'

(Jeremiah 38:26)  then you shall say to them, 'I made a humble plea to the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.'"

(Jeremiah 38:27)  Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and asked him, and he answered them as the king had instructed him. So they stopped speaking with him, for the conversation had not been overheard.

(Jeremiah 38:28)  And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

In Jeremiah chapter 39 the fall and destruction of Jerusalem to the Chaldean army happens, the exile of the people of Jerusalem to Babylon, the capture,and blinding of the king, after which the king is carried off to Babylon, yet Jeremiah and another obedient person survived all this.

(Jeremiah 39:1)  In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it.

(Jeremiah 39:2)  In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

(Jeremiah 39:3)  Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came and sat in the middle gate: Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, with all the rest of the officers of the king of Babylon.

(Jeremiah 39:4)  When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward the Arabah.

(Jeremiah 39:5)  But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he passed sentence on him.

(Jeremiah 39:6)  The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes, and the king of Babylon slaughtered all the nobles of Judah.

(Jeremiah 39:7)  He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.

(Jeremiah 39:8)  The Chaldeans burned the king's house and the house of the people, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

(Jeremiah 39:9)  Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the people who remained.

(Jeremiah 39:10)  Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

(Jeremiah 39:11)  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave command concerning Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, saying,

(Jeremiah 39:12)  "Take him, look after him well, and do him no harm, but deal with him as he tells you."

(Jeremiah 39:13)  So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon

(Jeremiah 39:14)  sent and took Jeremiah from the court of the guard. They entrusted him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he lived among the people.

(Jeremiah 39:15)  The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the guard:

(Jeremiah 39:16)  "Go, and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will fulfill my words against this city for harm and not for good, and they shall be accomplished before you on that day.

(Jeremiah 39:17)  But I will deliver you on that day, declares the LORD, and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.

(Jeremiah 39:18)  For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but you shall have your life as a prize of war, because you have put your trust in me, declares the LORD.'"

In Jeremiah chapter 40 the prophet is released from chains and given the choice of where to live, and he chooses Gedaliah and Mizpah to represent the people before the Chaldeans.

(Jeremiah 40:1)  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him bound in chains along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

(Jeremiah 40:2)  The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, "The LORD your God pronounced this disaster against this place.

(Jeremiah 40:3)  The LORD has brought it about, and has done as he said. Because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey his voice, this thing has come upon you.

(Jeremiah 40:4)  Now, behold, I release you today from the chains on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well, but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.

(Jeremiah 40:5)  If you remain, then return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon appointed governor of the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people. Or go wherever you think it right to go." So the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of food and a present, and let him go.

(Jeremiah 40:6)  Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.

(Jeremiah 40:7)  When all the captains of the forces in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land and had committed to him men, women, and children, those of the poorest of the land who had not been taken into exile to Babylon,

(Jeremiah 40:8)  they went to Gedaliah at Mizpah--Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

(Jeremiah 40:9)  Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, swore to them and their men, saying, "Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

(Jeremiah 40:10)  As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah, to represent you before the Chaldeans who will come to us. But as for you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and store them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken."

(Jeremiah 40:11)  Likewise, when all the Judeans who were in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and in other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over them,

(Jeremiah 40:12)  then all the Judeans returned from all the places to which they had been driven and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance.

(Jeremiah 40:13)  Now Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah

(Jeremiah 40:14)  and said to him, "Do you know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?" But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them.

(Jeremiah 40:15)  Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, "Please let me go and strike down Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Judeans who are gathered about you would be scattered, and the remnant of Judah would perish?"

(Jeremiah 40:16)  But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, "You shall not do this thing, for you are speaking falsely of Ishmael."

In Jeremiah chapter 41 Gedaliah is then slain by Ishmael and the other people with Gedaliah too, many folks are then afraid of the Chaldeans because of this assassination of Gedaliah

(Jeremiah 41:1)  In the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, one of the chief officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. As they ate bread together there at Mizpah,

(Jeremiah 41:2)  Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men with him rose up and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor in the land.

(Jeremiah 41:3)  Ishmael also struck down all the Judeans who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldean soldiers who happened to be there.

(Jeremiah 41:4)  On the day after the murder of Gedaliah, before anyone knew of it,

(Jeremiah 41:5)  eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samaria, with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and their bodies gashed, bringing grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the LORD.

(Jeremiah 41:6)  And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah came out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he came. As he met them, he said to them, "Come in to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam."

(Jeremiah 41:7)  When they came into the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and cast them into a cistern.

(Jeremiah 41:8)  But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, "Do not put us to death, for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the fields." So he refrained and did not put them to death with their companions.

(Jeremiah 41:9)  Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men whom he had struck down along with Gedaliah was the large cistern that King Asa had made for defense against Baasha king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

(Jeremiah 41:10)  Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king's daughters and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and set out to cross over to the Ammonites.

(Jeremiah 41:11)  But when Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,

(Jeremiah 41:12)  they took all their men and went to fight against Ishmael the son of Nethaniah. They came upon him at the great pool that is in Gibeon.

(Jeremiah 41:13)  And when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him, they rejoiced.

(Jeremiah 41:14)  So all the people whom Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.

(Jeremiah 41:15)  But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

(Jeremiah 41:16)  Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam--soldiers, women, children, and eunuchs, whom Johanan brought back from Gibeon.

(Jeremiah 41:17)  And they went and stayed at Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem, intending to go to Egypt

(Jeremiah 41:18)  because of the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

In chapter 42 of Jeremiah then the men who are with Jeremiah make a plea for mercy to the Lord to Jeremiah, and then Jeremiah returns the word of the Lord that they are to not fear Nebuchadnezzar and are to stay put in Judah and not to flee to Egypt or else then their fears will overtake them, and they will be killed by sword, plague in Egypt for their disobedience and rebellion

(Jeremiah 42:1)  Then all the commanders of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near

(Jeremiah 42:2)  and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "Let our plea for mercy come before you, and pray to the LORD your God for us, for all this remnant--because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us--

(Jeremiah 42:3)  that the LORD your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do."

(Jeremiah 42:4)  Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your request, and whatever the LORD answers you I will tell you. I will keep nothing back from you."

(Jeremiah 42:5)  Then they said to Jeremiah, "May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to all the word with which the LORD your God sends you to us.

(Jeremiah 42:6)  Whether it is good or bad, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God."

(Jeremiah 42:7)  At the end of ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.

(Jeremiah 42:8)  Then he summoned Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest,

(Jeremiah 42:9)  and said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your plea for mercy before him:

(Jeremiah 42:10)  If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent of the disaster that I did to you.

(Jeremiah 42:11)  Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Do not fear him, declares the LORD, for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand.

(Jeremiah 42:12)  I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you and let you remain in your own land.

(Jeremiah 42:13)  But if you say, 'We will not remain in this land,' disobeying the voice of the LORD your God

(Jeremiah 42:14)  and saying, 'No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there,'

(Jeremiah 42:15)  then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to enter Egypt and go to live there,

(Jeremiah 42:16)  then the sword that you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow close after you to Egypt, and there you shall die.

(Jeremiah 42:17)  All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. They shall have no remnant or survivor from the disaster that I will bring upon them.

(Jeremiah 42:18)  "For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more.

(Jeremiah 42:19)  The LORD has said to you, O remnant of Judah, 'Do not go to Egypt.' Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day

(Jeremiah 42:20)  that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, 'Pray for us to the LORD our God, and whatever the LORD our God says declare to us and we will do it.'

(Jeremiah 42:21)  And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in anything that he sent me to tell you.

(Jeremiah 42:22)  Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live."

In Jeremiah chapter 43 the people to whom Jeremiah was speaking to in chapter 42 utterly reject what he was saying to them, claiming Jeremiah to be a liar and false with what he said, and do indeed go to Egypt in spite of what Jeremiah said, and then Jeremiah then prophesies Nebuchadnezzar’s capturing of Egypt, and the judgment to fall on them for their rebellion against the Lord

(Jeremiah 43:1)  When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all these words of the LORD their God, with which the LORD their God had sent him to them,

(Jeremiah 43:2)  Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, "You are telling a lie. The LORD our God did not send you to say, 'Do not go to Egypt to live there,'

(Jeremiah 43:3)  but Baruch the son of Neriah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may kill us or take us into exile in Babylon."

(Jeremiah 43:4)  So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces and all the people did not obey the voice of the LORD, to remain in the land of Judah.

(Jeremiah 43:5)  But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven--

(Jeremiah 43:6)  the men, the women, the children, the princesses, and every person whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah.

(Jeremiah 43:7)  And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the LORD. And they arrived at Tahpanhes.

(Jeremiah 43:8)  Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes:

(Jeremiah 43:9)  "Take in your hands large stones and hide them in the mortar in the pavement that is at the entrance to Pharaoh's palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah,

(Jeremiah 43:10)  and say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden, and he will spread his royal canopy over them.

(Jeremiah 43:11)  He shall come and strike the land of Egypt, giving over to the pestilence those who are doomed to the pestilence, to captivity those who are doomed to captivity, and to the sword those who are doomed to the sword.

(Jeremiah 43:12)  I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace.

(Jeremiah 43:13)  He shall break the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.'"

In Jeremiah chapter 44 Jeremiah then strongly rebukes the people who fled to Egypt reminding them what happened and why to those up in Judah and that they are doing the same evil, cutting themselves off from God, as well, and will face judgment from the Lord and die because of their rebellion save a few fugitives for Nebuchadnezzar will capture in Egypt as well

(Jeremiah 44:1)  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who lived in the land of Egypt, at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Memphis, and in the land of Pathros,

(Jeremiah 44:2)  "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the disaster that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them,

(Jeremiah 44:3)  because of the evil that they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to make offerings and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

(Jeremiah 44:4)  Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, 'Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!'

(Jeremiah 44:5)  But they did not listen or incline their ear, to turn from their evil and make no offerings to other gods.

(Jeremiah 44:6)  Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.

(Jeremiah 44:7)  And now thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?

(Jeremiah 44:8)  Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?

(Jeremiah 44:9)  Have you forgotten the evil of your fathers, the evil of the kings of Judah, the evil of their wives, your own evil, and the evil of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

(Jeremiah 44:10)  They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.

(Jeremiah 44:11)  "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for harm, to cut off all Judah.

(Jeremiah 44:12)  I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed. In the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine they shall be consumed. From the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine, and they shall become an oath, a horror, a curse, and a taunt.

(Jeremiah 44:13)  I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,

(Jeremiah 44:14)  so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, except some fugitives."

(Jeremiah 44:15)  Then all the men who knew that their wives had made offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:

(Jeremiah 44:16)  "As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.

(Jeremiah 44:17)  But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.

(Jeremiah 44:18)  But since we left off making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine."

(Jeremiah 44:19)  And the women said, "When we made offerings to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?"

(Jeremiah 44:20)  Then Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women, all the people who had given him this answer:

(Jeremiah 44:21)  "As for the offerings that you offered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your officials, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them? Did it not come into his mind?

(Jeremiah 44:22)  The LORD could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

(Jeremiah 44:23)  It is because you made offerings and because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies that this disaster has happened to you, as at this day."

(Jeremiah 44:24)  Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women, "Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who are in the land of Egypt.

(Jer emiah44:25)  Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You and your wives have declared with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, 'We will surely perform our vows that we have made, to make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.' Then confirm your vows and perform your vows!

(Jeremiah 44:26)  Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the LORD, that my name shall no more be invoked by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, 'As the Lord GOD lives.'

(Jeremiah 44:27)  Behold, I am watching over them for disaster and not for good. All the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end of them.

(Jeremiah 44:28)  And those who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who came to the land of Egypt to live, shall know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.

(Jeremiah 44:29)  This shall be the sign to you, declares the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, in order that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for harm:

(Jeremiah 44:30)  Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life."

In Jeremiah chapter 45 is a brief letter from Jeremiah to Baruch, telling Baruch that the Lord is breaking down what He had build up and not to seek the goodly things for the Lord is bringing evil on the world

(Jeremiah 45:1)  The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

(Jeremiah 45:2)  "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch:

(Jeremiah 45:3)  You said, 'Woe is me! For the LORD has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.'

(Jeremiah 45:4)  Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up--that is, the whole land.

(Jeremiah 45:5)  And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not, for behold, I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the LORD. But I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go."

Here is a link to the concluding seven chapters of the book of Jeremiah, chapters 45 through 45 with prophecies on nations and people groups, some of the prophecies being end times related

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jay-dougherty/book-of-jeremiah-bible-study-chapters-45-through-52/10200826023906485

Jeremiah had the difficult job of prophesying in a very difficult and very evil time in Israel’s people when the people were becoming more backslidden and reprobate, and I see much the same things happening today as then, but in different ways. God wants all today to repent of wickedness as He did then, and will judge now all evil as He did then. The one thing we have now that Jeremiah’s people didn’t is the fact that Jesus did come and die for our sins, giving us a way to find forgiveness, eternal life, and most of all relationship with a God who truly loves us and is grieved by all evil, no matter where it comes from or how. His love is so great that He did send His only Son, Jesus to die for our sins so relationship can be restored, and there is nothing like a relationship with God, nothing can compare to it at all. I am now including a prayer which will invite Jesus into your heart and begin this wonderful relationship or even you can return to it through this prayer repenting of what may have separated you from Jesus. Please do pray this prayer with me

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours