Today’s Hebrew Testament chronological reading is in Jeremiah 34 and 37.
(Please see Chronological Notes Documentation to understand why the book of Jeremiah must be read out of order to read it chronologically.)
The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Psalm 137.
The Greek Testament reading is in 2 Peter 2.
Essential Studies.
Jeremiah 37, Chiastic structure
Additional studies: Jeremiah Index (in process)
These chilling events which befell Jeremiah, in the run up to Nebuchadnezzar’s final siege of Jerusalem, are vividly described in Josephus, The Antiquity of the Jews, Book 10. Scroll down to chapter 7.
Psalm 137, Chiastic structure
Additional studies: Psalms, Book Five: Psalms 107-150 Index
The B pair and the central axis is a plea in captivity, not to forget who they are or where they are from, to not assimilate into Babylonianism but to remain the distinct people that they are. The reference to the right hand forgetting its skill and the tongue cleaving to the roof may refer back to the demand for songs: let me forget how to play the harp and sing the songs before I forget you, O Jerusalem!
2 Peter 2, True and false teachers
Additional studies: 1 & 2 Peter Index
The message of the false prophets and teachers, whose feigned words conceal hearts full of lasciviousness, is that casting off God’s Law will bring you freedom (‘promising them freedom,’ vs. 19). But they themselves are enslaved to the corruption they promote. They entice the unstable, recently escaped from the world.
Three-year Bible.
The three-year plan is here.
Today’s reading is in Jeremiah 36.
Suggested study: Jeremiah 36, Bible for Beginners.
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