WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.840 Nancy: Welcome to immerse: the daily bible reading experience. 00:00:02.920 --> 00:00:04.460 day 200 and 66 00:00:04.797 --> 00:00:08.577 while Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the Guard, the 00:00:08.577 --> 00:00:10.407 Lord gave him this second message. 00:00:11.457 --> 00:00:16.137 This is what the Lord says, the Lord who made the earth, who formed and 00:00:16.142 --> 00:00:18.747 established it, whose name is the Lord? 00:00:19.647 --> 00:00:20.337 Ask me. 00:00:20.487 --> 00:00:26.547 And I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come for. 00:00:26.547 --> 00:00:29.037 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says. 00:00:29.817 --> 00:00:35.097 You have torn down the houses of this city and even the king's palace to get 00:00:35.097 --> 00:00:39.807 materials to strengthen the walls against the siege, ramps and swords of the enemy. 00:00:40.557 --> 00:00:44.697 You expect to fight the Babylonians, but the men of this city are 00:00:44.697 --> 00:00:46.827 already as good as dead for. 00:00:46.827 --> 00:00:49.947 I have determined to destroy them in my terrible anger. 00:00:50.787 --> 00:00:53.787 I have abandoned them because of all their wickedness. 00:00:54.897 --> 00:00:55.797 Nevertheless. 00:00:56.217 --> 00:01:00.567 The time will come when I will heal Jerusalem's wounds and give 00:01:00.567 --> 00:01:02.757 it prosperity and true peace. 00:01:03.327 --> 00:01:07.857 I will restore the fortunes of Judah and Israel and rebuild their towns. 00:01:08.487 --> 00:01:11.727 I will cleanse them of their sins against me and forgive 00:01:11.727 --> 00:01:13.317 all their sins of rebellion. 00:01:14.127 --> 00:01:18.447 Then this city will bring me joy, glory, and honor before 00:01:18.447 --> 00:01:19.797 all the nations of the earth. 00:01:20.697 --> 00:01:24.057 The people of the world will see all the good I do for my people. 00:01:24.747 --> 00:01:29.157 And they will tremble with awe at the peace and prosperity I provide for them. 00:01:30.267 --> 00:01:33.117 This is what the Lord says You have said. 00:01:33.627 --> 00:01:37.677 This is a desolate land where people and animals have all disappeared, 00:01:38.727 --> 00:01:42.087 yet in the empty streets of Jerusalem and Judah's other towns, 00:01:42.567 --> 00:01:44.217 there will be heard once more. 00:01:44.397 --> 00:01:48.747 The sounds of joy and laughter, the joyful voices of bridegrooms 00:01:48.747 --> 00:01:50.397 and brides will be heard again. 00:01:50.982 --> 00:01:54.702 Along with the joyous songs of people bringing Thanksgiving offerings 00:01:54.702 --> 00:01:57.162 to the Lord, they will sing. 00:01:57.942 --> 00:02:00.222 Give thanks to the Lord of heaven's armies. 00:02:00.612 --> 00:02:01.962 For the Lord is good. 00:02:02.592 --> 00:02:05.112 His faithful love endures forever. 00:02:05.892 --> 00:02:09.552 For I will restore the prosperity of this land to what it was 00:02:09.557 --> 00:02:11.502 in the past, says the Lord. 00:02:12.792 --> 00:02:14.892 This is what the Lord of heaven's armies says. 00:02:15.672 --> 00:02:20.022 This land, though it is now desolate and has no people and animals. 00:02:20.517 --> 00:02:24.447 Will once more have pastures where shepherds can lead their flocks. 00:02:25.197 --> 00:02:28.917 Once again, shepherds will count their flocks in the towns of the hill country, 00:02:29.217 --> 00:02:33.897 the foothills of Judah, the Negev, the land of Benjamin, the vicinity of 00:02:33.897 --> 00:02:36.417 Jerusalem, and all the towns of Judah. 00:02:37.287 --> 00:02:42.387 I, the Lord have spoken the day will come, says the Lord, when I 00:02:42.387 --> 00:02:46.827 will do for Israel and Judah all the good things I have promised them. 00:02:47.757 --> 00:02:51.327 In those days, and at that time, I will raise up a righteous 00:02:51.327 --> 00:02:53.517 descendant from King David's line. 00:02:54.087 --> 00:02:57.087 He will do what is just and right throughout the land. 00:02:57.777 --> 00:03:02.127 In that day, Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in 00:03:02.127 --> 00:03:05.217 safety, and this will be its name. 00:03:05.757 --> 00:03:10.557 The Lord is our righteousness for this is what the Lord says. 00:03:11.367 --> 00:03:14.847 David will have a descendant sitting on the throne of Israel forever. 00:03:15.642 --> 00:03:20.082 And there will always be Levitical priests to offer burnt offerings and 00:03:20.082 --> 00:03:22.722 grain offerings and sacrifices to me. 00:03:24.282 --> 00:03:26.772 Then this message came to Jeremiah from the Lord. 00:03:27.732 --> 00:03:29.112 This is what the Lord says. 00:03:29.832 --> 00:03:34.122 If you can break my covenant with the day and the night, so that one does 00:03:34.122 --> 00:03:39.552 not follow the other, only then will my covenant with my servant David be broken. 00:03:40.272 --> 00:03:44.292 Only then will he no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne. 00:03:44.967 --> 00:03:49.107 The same is true for my covenant with the Levitical priests who minister before 00:03:49.107 --> 00:03:54.507 me, and as the stars of the sky cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore 00:03:54.507 --> 00:03:59.067 cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of my servant David 00:03:59.457 --> 00:04:01.737 and the Levites who minister before me. 00:04:02.757 --> 00:04:04.977 The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. 00:04:05.487 --> 00:04:08.667 He said, have you noticed what people are saying? 00:04:09.687 --> 00:04:13.227 The Lord chose Judah and Israel and then abandoned them. 00:04:13.947 --> 00:04:17.937 They are sneering and saying that Israel is not worthy to be counted as a 00:04:17.937 --> 00:04:20.877 nation, but this is what the Lord says. 00:04:21.957 --> 00:04:26.157 I would no more reject my people than I would change my laws that 00:04:26.162 --> 00:04:28.587 govern night and day, earth and sky. 00:04:29.187 --> 00:04:33.057 I will never abandon the descendants of Jacob or David, my servant, 00:04:33.627 --> 00:04:37.617 or change the plan that David's descendants will rule the descendants 00:04:37.617 --> 00:04:39.537 of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 00:04:40.137 --> 00:04:42.867 Instead, I will restore them to their land. 00:04:43.332 --> 00:04:44.682 And have mercy on them. 00:04:46.362 --> 00:04:50.472 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came with all the armies from the kingdoms 00:04:50.472 --> 00:04:54.612 he ruled and he fought against Jerusalem and the towns of Judah. 00:04:55.662 --> 00:05:00.642 At that time, this message came to Jeremiah from the Lord, go to King 00:05:00.642 --> 00:05:05.802 Zakiah of Judah and tell him, this is what the Lord the God of Israel says. 00:05:06.582 --> 00:05:11.202 I'm about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down. 00:05:11.967 --> 00:05:16.407 You will not escape his grasp, but will be captured and taken to meet 00:05:16.407 --> 00:05:18.237 the king of Babylon face to face. 00:05:18.897 --> 00:05:20.727 Then you will be exiled to Babylon. 00:05:21.627 --> 00:05:25.587 But listen to this promise from the Lord Oze, king of Judah. 00:05:26.457 --> 00:05:27.867 This is what the Lord says. 00:05:28.677 --> 00:05:32.187 You will not be killed in war but will die peacefully. 00:05:32.997 --> 00:05:36.687 People will burn incense in your memory just as they did for your 00:05:36.687 --> 00:05:39.147 ancestors, the kings who preceded you. 00:05:39.867 --> 00:05:41.787 They will mourn for you crying. 00:05:42.117 --> 00:05:44.067 Alas, our master is dead. 00:05:44.697 --> 00:05:46.947 This I have decreed, says the Lord. 00:05:48.507 --> 00:05:52.407 So Jeremiah the prophet, delivered the message to Kings Zakiah of Judah. 00:05:53.067 --> 00:05:58.797 At this time, the Babylonian army was Besieging Jerusalem, lake ish and E Zika. 00:05:59.277 --> 00:06:02.547 The only fortified cities of Judah not yet captured. 00:06:04.257 --> 00:06:06.657 This message came to Jeremiah from the Lord. 00:06:06.837 --> 00:06:11.487 After Kings, Akia made a covenant with the people proclaiming freedom for the slaves. 00:06:12.207 --> 00:06:16.467 He had ordered all the people to free their Hebrew slaves, both men and women. 00:06:17.007 --> 00:06:21.927 No one was to keep a fellow Judean in bondage the officials and all the 00:06:21.927 --> 00:06:26.637 people had obeyed the King's command, but later they changed their minds. 00:06:27.207 --> 00:06:31.137 They took back the men and women they had freed, forcing them to be slaves again. 00:06:32.007 --> 00:06:34.827 So the Lord gave them this message through Jeremiah. 00:06:35.517 --> 00:06:38.217 This is what the Lord the God of Israel says. 00:06:38.907 --> 00:06:42.537 I made a covenant with your ancestors long ago when I rescued 00:06:42.537 --> 00:06:44.217 them from their slavery in Egypt. 00:06:44.787 --> 00:06:50.187 I told them that every Hebrew slave must be freed after serving six years, but 00:06:50.187 --> 00:06:52.107 your ancestors paid no attention to me. 00:06:52.962 --> 00:06:56.922 Recently you repented and did what was right following my command. 00:06:57.462 --> 00:07:00.972 You freed your slaves and made a solemn covenant with me in 00:07:00.977 --> 00:07:02.652 the temple that bears my name. 00:07:03.342 --> 00:07:07.032 But now you have shrugged off your oath and defiled my name. 00:07:07.392 --> 00:07:10.692 By taking back the men and women you had freed, forcing 00:07:10.697 --> 00:07:12.372 them to be slaves once again. 00:07:13.242 --> 00:07:15.672 Therefore, this is what the Lord says. 00:07:16.242 --> 00:07:19.602 Since you have not obeyed me by setting your countrymen free. 00:07:20.217 --> 00:07:24.837 I will set you free to be destroyed by war, disease, and famine. 00:07:25.737 --> 00:07:29.697 You will be an object of horror to all the nations of the earth because you 00:07:29.697 --> 00:07:31.527 have broken the terms of our covenant. 00:07:31.947 --> 00:07:36.117 I will cut you apart just as you cut apart the calf, when you walked 00:07:36.117 --> 00:07:38.877 between its halves to solemn your vows. 00:07:39.957 --> 00:07:45.537 Yes, I will cut you apart whether you are officials of Judah or Jerusalem court 00:07:45.537 --> 00:07:48.087 officials, priests, or common people. 00:07:48.837 --> 00:07:50.547 For you have broken your oath. 00:07:51.207 --> 00:07:53.997 I will give you to your enemies and they will kill you. 00:07:54.567 --> 00:07:59.907 Your bodies will be food For the vultures and wild animals, I will hand over 00:07:59.907 --> 00:08:04.497 King Zakiah of Judah and his officials to the army of the King of Babylon. 00:08:05.277 --> 00:08:08.817 And although they have left Jerusalem for a while, I will call 00:08:08.817 --> 00:08:10.797 the Babylonian armies back again. 00:08:11.457 --> 00:08:15.357 They will fight against this city and will capture it and burn it down. 00:08:16.257 --> 00:08:19.587 I will see to it that all the towns of Judah are destroyed 00:08:20.007 --> 00:08:21.477 with no one living there. 00:08:22.887 --> 00:08:27.747 This is the message the Lord gave Jeremiah when Je Jolla Kim, son of Josiah was 00:08:27.747 --> 00:08:32.607 king of Judah, go to the settlement where the families of the recites live 00:08:32.907 --> 00:08:34.767 and invite them to the Lord's temple. 00:08:35.487 --> 00:08:38.877 Take them into one of the inner rooms and offer them some wine. 00:08:39.762 --> 00:08:44.382 So I went to see Jay Zania, son of Jeremiah and grandson of Haba 00:08:44.382 --> 00:08:48.942 Anaya, and all his brothers and sons representing all the IDE families. 00:08:49.692 --> 00:08:53.562 I took them to the temple and we went into the room assigned to the sons of 00:08:53.562 --> 00:08:56.592 Hanan, son of ig Deliah, a man of God. 00:08:57.432 --> 00:09:00.732 This room was located next to the one used by the temple officials 00:09:01.092 --> 00:09:05.352 directly above the room of Meia, son of Shalom, the temple gatekeeper. 00:09:06.552 --> 00:09:10.002 I set cups and jugs of wine before them and invited them to 00:09:10.002 --> 00:09:12.222 have a drink, but they refused. 00:09:13.032 --> 00:09:17.742 No, they said We don't drink wine because our ancestor, Jehova AB 00:09:17.802 --> 00:09:20.202 son of rehab, gave us this command. 00:09:20.742 --> 00:09:24.282 You and your descendants must never drink wine and do not 00:09:24.282 --> 00:09:28.722 build houses or plant crops or vineyards, but always live in tents. 00:09:29.412 --> 00:09:33.102 If you follow these commands, you will live long good lives in the land. 00:09:33.867 --> 00:09:35.997 So we have obeyed him in all these things. 00:09:36.627 --> 00:09:39.747 We have never had a drink of wine to this day, nor have our 00:09:39.747 --> 00:09:41.937 wives, our sons, or our daughters. 00:09:42.507 --> 00:09:46.767 We haven't built houses or owned vineyards or farms or planted crops. 00:09:47.217 --> 00:09:50.787 We have lived in tents and have fully obeyed all the commands 00:09:50.792 --> 00:09:52.647 of jeh dab our ancestor. 00:09:53.487 --> 00:09:57.927 But when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked this country, we were afraid 00:09:57.927 --> 00:09:59.907 of the Babylonian and Syrian armies. 00:10:00.267 --> 00:10:02.157 So we decided to move to Jerusalem. 00:10:02.757 --> 00:10:03.837 That is why we are here. 00:10:05.067 --> 00:10:07.287 Then the Lord gave this message to Jeremiah. 00:10:08.067 --> 00:10:11.307 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says. 00:10:12.087 --> 00:10:15.957 Go and say to the people in Judah and Jerusalem, come and learn 00:10:15.957 --> 00:10:17.607 a lesson about how to obey me. 00:10:18.357 --> 00:10:19.197 The exabytes. 00:10:19.202 --> 00:10:22.497 Do not drink wine to this day because their ancestor, 00:10:22.497 --> 00:10:23.997 Jehan dab told them not to. 00:10:25.407 --> 00:10:29.607 I have spoken to you again and again, and you refuse to obey me. 00:10:30.147 --> 00:10:34.887 Time after time I sent you prophets who told you, turn from your wicked 00:10:34.892 --> 00:10:37.107 ways and start doing things right. 00:10:37.707 --> 00:10:42.897 Stop worshiping other gods so that you might live in peace here in the land I 00:10:42.927 --> 00:10:47.907 have given to you and your ancestors, but you would not listen to me or obey me. 00:10:48.897 --> 00:10:53.967 The descendants of Jehan Dab son of rehab have obeyed their ancestor completely. 00:10:55.092 --> 00:10:56.862 You have refused to listen to me. 00:10:57.942 --> 00:11:02.952 Therefore, this is what the Lord God of heaven's armies, the God of Israel says 00:11:03.822 --> 00:11:06.432 because you refuse to listen or answer. 00:11:06.432 --> 00:11:10.752 When I call, I will send upon Judah and Jerusalem, all the 00:11:10.752 --> 00:11:12.162 disasters I have threatened. 00:11:12.472 --> 00:11:17.442 Then Jeremiah turned to the recites and said, this is what the Lord of 00:11:17.442 --> 00:11:19.602 heaven's armies, the God of Israel says. 00:11:20.517 --> 00:11:23.997 You have obeyed your ancestor, Jehan Daab in every respect 00:11:24.387 --> 00:11:26.157 following all his instructions. 00:11:26.637 --> 00:11:31.047 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says. 00:11:31.947 --> 00:11:38.157 Jehan Dabbs son of rehab will always have descendants who served me during 00:11:38.157 --> 00:11:42.717 the fourth year that Je Hoya, Kim's son of Josiah, was king and Judah, the 00:11:42.717 --> 00:11:44.727 Lord gave this message to Jeremiah. 00:11:45.822 --> 00:11:50.352 Get a scroll and write down all my messages against Israel, Judah and 00:11:50.352 --> 00:11:54.192 the other nations begin with the first message back in the days of 00:11:54.192 --> 00:11:58.542 Josiah and write down every message right up to the present time. 00:11:59.382 --> 00:12:02.772 Perhaps the people of Judah will repent when they hear again all the 00:12:02.772 --> 00:12:04.662 terrible things I have planned for them. 00:12:05.442 --> 00:12:08.472 Then I will be able to forgive their sins and wrongdoings. 00:12:09.492 --> 00:12:12.432 So Jeremiah sent for Barrick, son of Neriah. 00:12:13.032 --> 00:12:16.512 And as Jeremiah dictated all the prophecies that the Lord had given 00:12:16.512 --> 00:12:18.582 him, Barrick wrote them on a scroll. 00:12:19.302 --> 00:12:22.872 Then Jeremiah said to Barrick, I am a prisoner here and 00:12:22.872 --> 00:12:24.282 unable to go to the temple. 00:12:24.762 --> 00:12:29.202 So you go to the temple on the next day of fasting and read the messages from the 00:12:29.202 --> 00:12:33.942 Lord that I have had you write on this scroll, read them so the people who are 00:12:33.942 --> 00:12:35.952 there from all over Judah will hear them. 00:12:36.972 --> 00:12:41.082 Perhaps even yet, they will turn from their evil ways and ask the Lord's 00:12:41.082 --> 00:12:43.062 forgiveness before it is too late. 00:12:43.812 --> 00:12:46.782 For the Lord has threatened them with his terrible anger. 00:12:47.802 --> 00:12:51.402 Barrick did as Jeremiah told him, and read these messages from the 00:12:51.402 --> 00:12:53.202 Lord to the people at the temple. 00:12:53.982 --> 00:12:58.332 He did this on a day of sacred fasting, held in late Autumn during 00:12:58.332 --> 00:13:00.162 the fifth year of the reign of Jo Hoya. 00:13:00.162 --> 00:13:01.422 Kim's son of Josiah. 00:13:02.307 --> 00:13:03.297 People from all over. 00:13:03.297 --> 00:13:06.957 Judah had come to Jerusalem to attend the services at the temple. 00:13:06.957 --> 00:13:11.847 On that day, Barrick read Jeremiah's words on the scroll to all the people 00:13:12.447 --> 00:13:17.067 he stood in front of the temple, room of Giah, son of Chaffin, the secretary. 00:13:17.877 --> 00:13:22.497 This room was just off the upper courtyard of the temple near the new gate entrance 00:13:23.187 --> 00:13:28.287 when Mica's son of Miah and grandson of Chaffin heard the messages from the Lord. 00:13:28.842 --> 00:13:32.712 He went down to the secretary's room in the palace where the administrative 00:13:32.712 --> 00:13:35.292 officials were meeting Elma. 00:13:35.292 --> 00:13:40.422 The secretary was there along with Deia, son of Shamaya, El Nathan, son of 00:13:40.422 --> 00:13:46.282 Ak b Giah, son of Shahan, Zakiah, son of Hania, and all the other officials. 00:13:47.712 --> 00:13:50.772 When McKay told them about the messages, Barrick was reading to 00:13:50.772 --> 00:13:52.812 the people the officials sent. 00:13:52.812 --> 00:13:59.262 Jedi son of Naiah, grandson of Shamiah, and great grandson of Isha to ask Barrick 00:13:59.262 --> 00:14:01.182 to come and read the messages to them too. 00:14:01.962 --> 00:14:06.552 So Barrick took the scroll and went to them sit down and read the scroll to us. 00:14:06.612 --> 00:14:09.792 The officials said, and Barrick did as they requested. 00:14:11.052 --> 00:14:14.412 When they heard all the messages, they looked at one another in alarm. 00:14:15.327 --> 00:14:18.147 We must tell the king what we have heard they said to Barrick. 00:14:18.837 --> 00:14:21.627 But first, tell us how you got these messages. 00:14:22.077 --> 00:14:23.967 Did they come directly from Jeremiah? 00:14:24.957 --> 00:14:28.617 So Barrick explained, Jeremiah dictated them and I wrote them 00:14:28.617 --> 00:14:30.327 down in ink word for word. 00:14:30.417 --> 00:14:36.057 On this scroll, you and Jeremiah should both hide the officials told Barrick, 00:14:36.627 --> 00:14:38.067 don't tell anyone where you are. 00:14:39.207 --> 00:14:42.597 Then the officials left the scroll for safekeeping in the room of 00:14:42.597 --> 00:14:46.197 Alima, the secretary, and went to tell the king what had happened. 00:14:47.247 --> 00:14:49.617 The king sent je Huai to get the scroll. 00:14:50.367 --> 00:14:54.117 Je Huai brought it from Alma's room and read it to the king 00:14:54.387 --> 00:14:56.067 as all his officials stood by. 00:14:56.817 --> 00:15:00.627 It was late autumn, and the king was in a winterized part of the palace 00:15:00.807 --> 00:15:02.697 sitting in front of a fire to keep warm. 00:15:03.492 --> 00:15:07.092 Each time Jehu, I finished reading three or four columns. 00:15:07.332 --> 00:15:10.782 The king took a knife and cut off that section of the scroll. 00:15:11.232 --> 00:15:14.952 He then threw it into the fire section by section until the 00:15:14.957 --> 00:15:16.482 whole scroll was burned up. 00:15:17.292 --> 00:15:20.952 Neither the king nor his attendance showed any sign of fear or 00:15:20.952 --> 00:15:22.752 repentance at what they heard. 00:15:23.742 --> 00:15:28.392 Even when l Nathan Deleah and Miah begged the king not to burn 00:15:28.392 --> 00:15:30.342 the scroll, he wouldn't listen. 00:15:31.167 --> 00:15:37.797 Then the king commanded his son Geral, AYA, son of Israel and Shelemiah son of 00:15:37.797 --> 00:15:40.617 Abdiel to arrest Barrack and Jeremiah. 00:15:41.397 --> 00:15:46.197 But the Lord had hidden them after the king had burned the scroll on which 00:15:46.197 --> 00:15:48.117 Barrack had written Jeremiah's words. 00:15:48.567 --> 00:15:50.667 The Lord gave Jeremiah another message. 00:15:51.267 --> 00:15:55.407 He said, get another scroll and write everything again 00:15:55.647 --> 00:15:57.297 just as you did on the scroll. 00:15:57.297 --> 00:15:58.767 King Je Hoya Kim burned. 00:15:59.397 --> 00:16:02.877 Then say to the king, this is what the Lord says. 00:16:03.387 --> 00:16:07.617 You burned the scroll because it said The King of Babylon would destroy this 00:16:07.617 --> 00:16:10.167 land and empty it of people and animals. 00:16:10.977 --> 00:16:14.127 Now this is what the Lord says about King Jehoiakim of Judah. 00:16:14.817 --> 00:16:17.937 He will have no heirs to sit on the throne of David. 00:16:18.507 --> 00:16:23.067 His dead body will be thrown out to lie Unburied exposed to the heat of 00:16:23.067 --> 00:16:25.077 the day and the frost of the night. 00:16:25.827 --> 00:16:29.757 I will punish him and his family and his attendance for their sins. 00:16:30.357 --> 00:16:34.227 I will pour out on them and on all the people of Jerusalem and Judah, 00:16:34.467 --> 00:16:38.757 all the disasters I promised for, they would not listen to my warnings. 00:16:39.447 --> 00:16:44.247 So Jeremiah took another scroll and dictated again to his secretary Barrick. 00:16:44.967 --> 00:16:47.037 He wrote everything that had been on the scroll. 00:16:47.037 --> 00:16:48.987 King Je Hoya Kim had burned in the fire. 00:16:49.647 --> 00:16:52.287 Only this time he added much more. 00:16:54.852 --> 00:16:59.712 Zedekiah son of Josiah succeeded Je Hoya kin son of Je Hoya 00:16:59.712 --> 00:17:01.272 Kim as the King of Judah. 00:17:01.962 --> 00:17:06.942 He was appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, but neither King Zedekiah 00:17:07.032 --> 00:17:11.202 nor his attendance, nor the people who were left in the land listened to 00:17:11.202 --> 00:17:12.912 what the Lord said through Jeremiah. 00:17:13.602 --> 00:17:18.282 Nevertheless, Kings Zakiah sent Jeal, son of Shelemiah and 00:17:18.282 --> 00:17:20.712 Zephaniah, the priest, son of Meia. 00:17:21.177 --> 00:17:25.467 To ask Jeremiah, please pray to the Lord our God for us. 00:17:26.097 --> 00:17:29.457 Jeremiah had not yet been imprisoned so he could come and 00:17:29.462 --> 00:17:31.167 go among the people as he pleased. 00:17:32.007 --> 00:17:36.357 At this time, the army of Pharaoh, HFRA of Egypt, appeared 00:17:36.357 --> 00:17:37.857 at the southern border of Judah. 00:17:38.577 --> 00:17:41.787 When the Babylonian army heard about it, they withdrew from 00:17:41.787 --> 00:17:43.017 their siege of Jerusalem. 00:17:44.007 --> 00:17:47.667 Then the Lord gave this message to Jeremiah, this is what the 00:17:47.672 --> 00:17:49.407 Lord the God of Israel says. 00:17:50.127 --> 00:17:53.037 The King of Judah sent you to ask me what is going to happen? 00:17:53.577 --> 00:17:54.147 Tell him. 00:17:54.447 --> 00:17:58.587 Pharaoh's army is about to return to Egypt, though he came here to help you. 00:17:59.247 --> 00:18:02.757 Then the Babylonians will come back and capture this city 00:18:02.937 --> 00:18:04.227 and burn it to the ground. 00:18:05.127 --> 00:18:06.507 This is what the Lord says. 00:18:07.437 --> 00:18:11.577 Do not fool yourselves into thinking that the Babylonians are gone for good. 00:18:12.387 --> 00:18:12.957 They aren't. 00:18:13.677 --> 00:18:17.847 Even if you were to destroy the entire Babylonian army, leaving only 00:18:17.847 --> 00:18:22.617 a handful of wounded survivors, they would still stagger from their tents 00:18:22.917 --> 00:18:24.747 and burn this city to the ground. 00:18:26.187 --> 00:18:29.847 When the Babylonian army left Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's approaching 00:18:29.847 --> 00:18:34.377 army, Jeremiah started to leave the city on his way to the territory 00:18:34.377 --> 00:18:38.217 of Benjamin to claim his share of the property among his relatives. 00:18:38.217 --> 00:18:38.397 There. 00:18:39.162 --> 00:18:44.052 But as he was walking through the Benjamin Gate, a century, arrested him and said, 00:18:44.592 --> 00:18:46.572 you are defecting to the Babylonians. 00:18:47.232 --> 00:18:52.782 The century making the arrest was Raja son of Shelemiah, grandson of Nanaya. 00:18:53.412 --> 00:18:54.342 That's not true. 00:18:54.492 --> 00:18:55.722 Jeremiah protested. 00:18:56.262 --> 00:19:00.612 I had no intention of doing any such thing, but Rajah wouldn't listen. 00:19:01.002 --> 00:19:03.132 And he took Jeremiah before the officials. 00:19:03.987 --> 00:19:08.037 They were furious with Jeremiah and had him flogged and imprisoned 00:19:08.277 --> 00:19:09.477 in the house of Jonathan. 00:19:09.477 --> 00:19:13.377 The secretary, Jonathan's house had been converted into a prison. 00:19:14.397 --> 00:19:20.877 Jeremiah was put into a dungeon cell where he remained for many days later, Kings at 00:19:20.877 --> 00:19:25.797 AIA secretly requested that Jeremiah come to the palace where the king asked him, 00:19:26.517 --> 00:19:28.287 do you have any messages from the Lord? 00:19:29.427 --> 00:19:30.537 Yes, I do. 00:19:30.627 --> 00:19:34.227 Said Jeremiah, you will be defeated by the king of Babylon. 00:19:35.097 --> 00:19:38.757 Then Jeremiah asked the king, what crime have I committed? 00:19:39.147 --> 00:19:43.107 What have I done against you, your attendance, or the people that I 00:19:43.112 --> 00:19:44.487 should be imprisoned like this? 00:19:45.177 --> 00:19:46.827 Where are your prophets now? 00:19:47.127 --> 00:19:50.607 Who told you the king of Babylon would not attack you or this land? 00:19:51.567 --> 00:19:53.217 Listen, my Lord the king. 00:19:53.217 --> 00:19:54.057 I beg you. 00:19:54.447 --> 00:19:57.597 Don't send me back to the dungeon in the house of Jonathan, the 00:19:57.597 --> 00:20:00.087 secretary, for I will die there. 00:20:01.857 --> 00:20:06.207 So Kings Zedekiah commanded that Jeremiah not be returned to the dungeon. 00:20:06.657 --> 00:20:09.117 Instead, he was imprisoned in the courtyard of the 00:20:09.117 --> 00:20:10.617 guard in the royal palace. 00:20:11.367 --> 00:20:16.227 The king also commanded that Jeremiah be given a loaf of fresh bread every day as 00:20:16.227 --> 00:20:17.817 long as there was any left in the city. 00:20:18.687 --> 00:20:21.087 So Jeremiah was put in the palace prison. 00:20:22.887 --> 00:20:29.427 Now Chef Aya, son of Matan, Alaya, son of Paer, Jeal, son of Shamiah 00:20:29.787 --> 00:20:34.497 and Pacher, son of Malkia, heard what Jeremiah had been telling the people. 00:20:34.947 --> 00:20:36.057 He had been saying. 00:20:36.357 --> 00:20:37.377 This is what the Lord says. 00:20:38.217 --> 00:20:41.607 Everyone who stays in Jerusalem will die from war, famine, or 00:20:41.607 --> 00:20:44.997 disease, but those who surrender to the Babylonians will live. 00:20:45.507 --> 00:20:47.157 Their reward will be life. 00:20:47.562 --> 00:20:48.522 They will live. 00:20:49.332 --> 00:20:52.992 The Lord also says the city of Jerusalem will certainly be handed 00:20:52.992 --> 00:20:56.142 over to the army of the king of Babylon who will capture it. 00:20:56.982 --> 00:21:01.932 So these officials went to the king and said, sir, this man must die. 00:21:02.622 --> 00:21:06.432 That kind of talk will undermine the morale of the few fighting men we 00:21:06.432 --> 00:21:10.812 have left, as well as that of all the people, this man is a traitor. 00:21:12.012 --> 00:21:13.572 King Zedekiah agreed. 00:21:14.442 --> 00:21:15.012 All right. 00:21:15.042 --> 00:21:16.932 He said, do as you like. 00:21:17.232 --> 00:21:18.192 I can't stop you. 00:21:19.842 --> 00:21:24.822 So the officials took Jeremiah from his cell and lowered him by ropes into 00:21:24.822 --> 00:21:26.712 an empty cistern in the prison yard. 00:21:27.612 --> 00:21:30.522 It belonged to Mal Kaja, a member of the Royal family. 00:21:31.182 --> 00:21:34.902 There was no water in the cistern, but there was a thick layer of mud at the 00:21:34.902 --> 00:21:38.142 bottom, and Jeremiah sank down into it. 00:21:39.637 --> 00:21:44.577 But Eed Melich, the Ethiopian, an important court official heard 00:21:44.577 --> 00:21:46.377 that Jeremiah was in the cist turn. 00:21:46.917 --> 00:21:49.767 At that time, the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate. 00:21:50.217 --> 00:21:53.577 So Eed Melich rushed from the palace to speak with him. 00:21:54.237 --> 00:21:55.377 My Lord, the king. 00:21:55.467 --> 00:21:56.037 He said. 00:21:56.547 --> 00:21:59.847 These men have done a very evil thing in putting Jeremiah 00:21:59.847 --> 00:22:01.287 the prophet into the cistern. 00:22:01.917 --> 00:22:05.937 He will soon die of hunger for almost all the bread in the city is gone. 00:22:06.717 --> 00:22:12.387 So the king told Ed Meek take 30 of my men with you and pulled Jeremiah 00:22:12.387 --> 00:22:14.247 out of the cistern before he dies. 00:22:15.027 --> 00:22:19.287 So Ed Meek took the men with him and went to a room in the palace beneath 00:22:19.287 --> 00:22:23.067 the Treasury, where he found some old rags and discarded clothing. 00:22:23.577 --> 00:22:27.417 He carried these to the cistern and lowered them to Jeremiah on a 00:22:27.417 --> 00:22:33.057 rope, lik called down to Jeremiah, put these rags under your armpits 00:22:33.057 --> 00:22:34.377 to protect you from the ropes. 00:22:35.022 --> 00:22:37.752 Then when Jeremiah was ready, they pulled him out. 00:22:38.382 --> 00:22:41.472 So Jeremiah was returned to the courtyard of the guard, the 00:22:41.472 --> 00:22:43.452 palace prison where he remained. 00:22:44.742 --> 00:22:49.002 One day, king Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and had him brought to the 00:22:49.007 --> 00:22:50.682 third entrance of the Lord's temple. 00:22:51.552 --> 00:22:55.422 I want to ask you something the king said, and don't try to hide the truth. 00:22:56.322 --> 00:23:00.672 Jeremiah said, if I tell you the truth, you will kill me, and if I give you 00:23:00.672 --> 00:23:03.012 advice, you won't listen to me anyway. 00:23:03.927 --> 00:23:08.517 So King Zedekiah secretly promised him, as surely as the Lord our creator 00:23:08.517 --> 00:23:12.747 lives, I will not kill you or hand you over to the men who want you dead. 00:23:13.887 --> 00:23:18.417 Then Jeremiah said to Zeek, this is what the Lord God of heaven's armies. 00:23:18.447 --> 00:23:22.947 The God of Israel says, if you surrender to the Babylonian officers, 00:23:23.307 --> 00:23:27.207 you and your family will live and the city will not be burned down. 00:23:27.987 --> 00:23:31.227 But if you refuse to surrender, you will not escape. 00:23:31.857 --> 00:23:35.757 This city will be handed over to the Babylonians and they will burn it to 00:23:35.757 --> 00:23:39.057 the ground, but I'm afraid to surrender. 00:23:39.147 --> 00:23:43.467 The king said for the Babylonians may hand me over to the Judeans 00:23:43.617 --> 00:23:47.157 who have defected to them, and who knows what they will do to me. 00:23:48.237 --> 00:23:51.477 Jeremiah replied, you won't be handed over to them. 00:23:51.597 --> 00:23:55.347 If you choose to obey the Lord, your life will be spared 00:23:55.467 --> 00:23:57.027 and all will go well for you. 00:23:58.017 --> 00:24:02.082 But if you refuse to surrender, This is what the Lord has revealed to me. 00:24:02.832 --> 00:24:06.552 All the women left in your palace will be brought out and given to 00:24:06.552 --> 00:24:08.622 the officers of the Babylonian army. 00:24:09.312 --> 00:24:14.112 Then the women will taunt you saying what fine friends you have, 00:24:14.652 --> 00:24:16.482 they have betrayed and misled you. 00:24:17.022 --> 00:24:20.862 When your feet sank in the mud, they left you to your fate. 00:24:21.762 --> 00:24:25.182 All your wives and children will be led out to the Babylonians 00:24:25.602 --> 00:24:26.832 and you will not escape. 00:24:27.432 --> 00:24:31.962 You will be seized by the king of Babylon and this city will be burned down. 00:24:33.222 --> 00:24:39.072 Then Zeek said to Jeremiah, don't tell anyone you told me this or you will die. 00:24:39.702 --> 00:24:43.842 My officials may hear that I spoke to you, and they may say, tell us what 00:24:43.842 --> 00:24:45.312 you and the king were talking about. 00:24:45.702 --> 00:24:47.382 If you don't tell us, we will kill you. 00:24:48.282 --> 00:24:51.192 If this happens, just tell them, you begged me not to send you back 00:24:51.192 --> 00:24:53.022 to Jonathan's dungeon for fear. 00:24:53.027 --> 00:24:53.832 You would die there. 00:24:54.987 --> 00:24:58.947 Sure enough, it wasn't long before the King's officials came to Jeremiah 00:24:59.247 --> 00:25:03.297 and asked him why the king had called for him, but Jeremiah followed the 00:25:03.297 --> 00:25:06.957 king's instructions and they left without finding out the truth. 00:25:07.797 --> 00:25:12.327 No one had overheard the conversation between Jeremiah and the king and 00:25:12.332 --> 00:25:16.077 Jeremiah remained a prisoner in the courtyard of the guard until 00:25:16.077 --> 00:25:17.487 the day Jerusalem was captured. 00:25:19.152 --> 00:25:24.162 In January of the ninth year of King's Zia's Reign, king Nebuchadnezzar 00:25:24.162 --> 00:25:28.122 of Babylon came with his entire army to besiege Jerusalem. 00:25:29.262 --> 00:25:34.812 Two and a half years later, on July 18th, in the 11th year of Zia's Reign, a 00:25:34.812 --> 00:25:37.032 section of the city wall was broken down. 00:25:37.782 --> 00:25:41.412 All the officers of the Babylonian army came in and sat 00:25:41.412 --> 00:25:43.032 in triumph at the middle gate. 00:25:43.917 --> 00:25:51.027 Neal Shaer of Samar and Nebo Sikkim, a Chief officer, and Neal Shaer, 00:25:51.087 --> 00:25:54.957 the King's advisor and all the other officers of the King of Babylon. 00:25:56.247 --> 00:26:00.627 When Kings Akia of Judah and all the soldiers saw that the Babylonians 00:26:00.627 --> 00:26:03.147 had broken into the city, they fled. 00:26:04.467 --> 00:26:07.977 They waited for nightfall, and then slipped through the gate between the 00:26:07.977 --> 00:26:11.727 two walls, behind the King's Garden, and headed toward the Jordan Valley. 00:26:12.687 --> 00:26:18.117 But the Babylonian troops chased them and overtook Zeek on the plains of Jericho. 00:26:18.867 --> 00:26:23.037 They captured him and took him to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who 00:26:23.037 --> 00:26:25.107 was at Rla in the land of Hamoth. 00:26:26.187 --> 00:26:28.977 There the king of Babylon pronounced judgment upon Zetia. 00:26:30.117 --> 00:26:34.947 The king of Babylon made Kyle watch as he slaughtered his sons at rla. 00:26:35.652 --> 00:26:38.862 The King of Babylon also slaughtered all the nobles of Judah. 00:26:39.492 --> 00:26:43.992 Then he gouged out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him in bronze chains 00:26:44.412 --> 00:26:45.972 to lead him away to Babylon. 00:26:47.652 --> 00:26:52.872 Meanwhile, the Babylonians burned Jerusalem, including the royal palace 00:26:53.172 --> 00:26:57.102 and the houses of the people, and they tore down the walls of the city. 00:26:58.122 --> 00:27:03.072 Then Neba Zain, the captain of the guard, took as exiles to Babylon. 00:27:03.132 --> 00:27:06.882 The rest of the people who remained in the city, those who had defected 00:27:06.882 --> 00:27:11.952 to him and everyone else who remained, but Neba Zain allowed some of the 00:27:11.952 --> 00:27:16.302 poorest people to stay behind in the land of Judah, and he assigned them 00:27:16.302 --> 00:27:18.432 to care for the vineyards and fields. 00:27:19.362 --> 00:27:24.582 King Nebuchadnezzar had told Nein the captain of the guard to find Jeremiah, 00:27:25.272 --> 00:27:27.132 see that he isn't hurt, he said. 00:27:27.627 --> 00:27:30.897 Look after him well, and give him anything he wants. 00:27:31.767 --> 00:27:38.547 So, NEBA Zain, the captain of the Guard, NEBA Shaman, a Chief Officer Neal Shazer, 00:27:38.697 --> 00:27:43.407 the King's advisor, and the other officers of Babylon's King, sent messengers 00:27:43.412 --> 00:27:45.267 to bring Jeremiah out of the prison. 00:27:46.077 --> 00:27:50.067 They put him under the care of Alaya, son of a Haiku and grandson of 00:27:50.067 --> 00:27:52.377 Shahan, who took him back to his home. 00:27:53.487 --> 00:27:56.547 So Jeremiah stayed in Judah among his own people. 00:27:57.717 --> 00:28:01.857 The Lord had given the following message to Jeremiah while he was still in prison. 00:28:02.697 --> 00:28:05.067 Say to EBIT, Melik, the Ethiopian. 00:28:05.637 --> 00:28:08.487 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel 00:28:08.487 --> 00:28:11.187 says, I will do to this city. 00:28:11.427 --> 00:28:16.047 Everything I have threatened, I will send disaster, not prosperity. 00:28:16.047 --> 00:28:20.307 You will see its destruction, but I will rescue you from those. 00:28:20.307 --> 00:28:23.427 You fear so much because you trusted me. 00:28:23.787 --> 00:28:25.977 I will give you your life as a reward. 00:28:26.517 --> 00:28:28.527 I will rescue you and keep you safe. 00:28:29.517 --> 00:28:31.527 I, the Lord have spoken. 00:28:33.207 --> 00:28:35.157 The Lord gave a message to Jeremiah. 00:28:35.307 --> 00:28:38.997 After Nein, the captain of the Guard had released him at Rama. 00:28:39.807 --> 00:28:43.497 He had found Jeremiah bound in chains among all the other captives 00:28:43.502 --> 00:28:47.037 of Jerusalem and Judah, who are being sent to exile in Babylon. 00:28:47.847 --> 00:28:52.077 The captain of the guard called for Jeremiah and said, the Lord your God 00:28:52.077 --> 00:28:54.057 has brought this disaster on this land. 00:28:54.477 --> 00:28:55.617 Just as he said he would. 00:28:56.352 --> 00:28:59.322 For these people have sinned against the Lord and disobeyed him. 00:28:59.862 --> 00:29:00.942 That is why it happened. 00:29:01.992 --> 00:29:04.422 But I'm going to take off your chains and let you go. 00:29:05.112 --> 00:29:07.662 If you want to come with me to Babylon, you are welcome. 00:29:08.232 --> 00:29:09.852 I will see that you are well cared for. 00:29:10.542 --> 00:29:12.972 But if you don't want to come, you may stay here. 00:29:13.632 --> 00:29:16.542 The whole land is before you go wherever you like. 00:29:17.592 --> 00:29:20.832 If you decide to stay, then return to G Elias, son of a 00:29:20.832 --> 00:29:22.752 haiku and grandson of Shahan. 00:29:23.397 --> 00:29:26.487 He has been appointed governor of Judah by the king of Babylon. 00:29:27.297 --> 00:29:30.657 Stay there with the people he rules, but it's up to you. 00:29:31.347 --> 00:29:32.457 Go wherever you like. 00:29:33.687 --> 00:29:37.047 Then Neba Zain, the captain of the guard, gave Jeremiah some 00:29:37.047 --> 00:29:38.907 food and money and let him go. 00:29:39.807 --> 00:29:46.017 So Jeremiah returned to Alaya, son of a haiku at mpa, and he lived in Judah with 00:29:46.017 --> 00:29:48.117 the few who were still left in the land. 00:29:49.617 --> 00:29:53.457 The leaders of the Judean military groups in the countryside heard that 00:29:53.462 --> 00:29:58.317 the King of Babylon had appointed gal, son of a haiku as governor over the 00:29:58.317 --> 00:30:02.607 poor people who were left behind in Judah, the men, women, and children 00:30:02.697 --> 00:30:04.437 who hadn't been exiled to Babylon. 00:30:05.277 --> 00:30:07.407 So they went to see gal at mpa. 00:30:08.367 --> 00:30:13.737 These included Ishmael, son of Haniya, Johannan, and Jonathan 00:30:13.857 --> 00:30:16.797 Sons of Korea, Reya son of 10. 00:30:16.797 --> 00:30:16.887 Hum. 00:30:17.877 --> 00:30:24.237 The Sons of Phi, the Nite Siah son of the Meite, and all their 00:30:24.237 --> 00:30:29.337 men get Aya vowed to them that the Babylonians meant them no harm. 00:30:30.057 --> 00:30:34.137 Don't be afraid to serve them live in the land and serve the king of 00:30:34.137 --> 00:30:36.477 Babylon and all will go well for you. 00:30:36.867 --> 00:30:42.297 He promised as for me, I will stay at SBA to represent you before the 00:30:42.297 --> 00:30:44.277 Babylonians who come to meet with us. 00:30:44.862 --> 00:30:49.002 Settle in the towns you have taken and live off the land, harvest 00:30:49.002 --> 00:30:52.632 the grapes and summer fruits and olives, and store them away. 00:30:53.412 --> 00:30:58.872 When the judeans in Moab, Amon Edem, and the other nearby countries heard 00:30:58.877 --> 00:31:03.282 that the King of Babylon had left a few people in Judah, and that Giah was the 00:31:03.282 --> 00:31:08.052 governor, they began to return to Judah from the places to which they had fled. 00:31:08.922 --> 00:31:11.412 They stopped at MPA to meet with Alaya. 00:31:11.847 --> 00:31:15.237 Then went into the Judean countryside to gather a great 00:31:15.237 --> 00:31:17.307 harvest of grapes and other crops. 00:31:18.447 --> 00:31:23.847 Soon after this Johanan son of Korea and the other military leaders came to 00:31:24.087 --> 00:31:30.597 Alaya at mpa, they said to him, did you know that Baus King of Amman has sent 00:31:30.597 --> 00:31:35.637 Ishmael son of Aniah to assassinate you, but get Aliyah refused to believe them. 00:31:36.417 --> 00:31:40.977 Later Johanan had a private conference with Gia and volunteered 00:31:40.977 --> 00:31:42.687 to kill Ishmael secretly. 00:31:43.317 --> 00:31:45.057 Why should we let him come and murder you? 00:31:45.207 --> 00:31:49.467 Johanan asked What will happen then to the Judeans who have returned? 00:31:49.947 --> 00:31:53.787 Why should the few of us who are still left be scattered and lost? 00:31:54.157 --> 00:31:59.817 But Gia said to Johanan, I forbid you to do any such thing for 00:31:59.817 --> 00:32:01.317 you are lying about Ishmael. 00:32:02.517 --> 00:32:09.042 But in mid autumn of that year, Ishmael son of Niah and grandson of Eima, who 00:32:09.047 --> 00:32:13.152 was a member of the royal family and had been one of the king's high officials, 00:32:13.602 --> 00:32:16.662 went to SBA with 10 men to meet Alaya. 00:32:17.562 --> 00:32:22.602 While they were eating together, Ishmael and his 10 men suddenly jumped up, drew 00:32:22.602 --> 00:32:27.492 their swords, and killed Alaya, whom the King of Babylon had appointed Governor. 00:32:28.662 --> 00:32:32.022 Ishmael also killed all the Judeans and the Babylonian 00:32:32.022 --> 00:32:34.452 soldiers who were with gal at Ms. 00:32:34.452 --> 00:32:40.782 Pa the next day before anyone had heard about gal's murder, 80 men arrived 00:32:40.782 --> 00:32:45.282 from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria to worship at the temple of the Lord. 00:32:46.122 --> 00:32:49.452 They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut 00:32:49.452 --> 00:32:53.322 themselves, and had brought along grain offerings and frankincense. 00:32:54.072 --> 00:32:57.552 Ishmael left MSPA to meet them weeping as he went. 00:32:58.362 --> 00:33:03.012 When he reached them, he said, oh, come and see what has happened to Alaya. 00:33:03.552 --> 00:33:07.122 But as soon as they were all inside the town, Ishmael and his 00:33:07.122 --> 00:33:11.442 men killed all but 10 of them and threw their bodies into a cistern. 00:33:12.432 --> 00:33:16.452 The other 10 had talked Ishmael into letting them go by promising to bring 00:33:16.452 --> 00:33:20.802 him their stores of wheat, barley, olive oil, and honey that they had hidden 00:33:20.802 --> 00:33:25.452 away the cistern where Ishmael dumped the bodies of the men he murdered. 00:33:25.887 --> 00:33:30.927 Was the large one dug by King Asa when he fortified MPA to protect 00:33:30.927 --> 00:33:33.117 himself against King Beha of Israel. 00:33:33.927 --> 00:33:37.407 Ishmael, son of Haniya filled it with corpses. 00:33:38.457 --> 00:33:42.117 Then Ishmael made captives of the King's daughters and the other people 00:33:42.117 --> 00:33:46.557 who had been left under GT Elia's care in MPA by Nein, the captain of 00:33:46.557 --> 00:33:51.387 the guard taking them with him, he started back toward the land of Amman. 00:33:52.197 --> 00:33:56.427 But when Johannen son of Korea and the other military leaders heard 00:33:56.427 --> 00:34:00.897 about Ishmael's crimes, they took all their men and set out to stop him. 00:34:01.407 --> 00:34:03.927 They caught up with him at the large pool near Gibeon. 00:34:04.587 --> 00:34:08.127 The people Ishmael had captured shouted for joy when they saw 00:34:08.127 --> 00:34:12.717 Johannen and the other military leaders and all the captives from MPA 00:34:12.777 --> 00:34:15.357 escaped and began to help Johanan. 00:34:16.032 --> 00:34:19.872 Meanwhile, Ishmael and eight of his men escaped from Johannen 00:34:20.112 --> 00:34:21.372 into the land of Amman. 00:34:22.542 --> 00:34:27.462 Then Johann's son of Korea and the other military leaders took all the people 00:34:27.467 --> 00:34:33.372 they had rescued in Gibeon, the soldiers, women, children, and court officials 00:34:33.522 --> 00:34:37.932 who Ishmael had captured after he killed Aliyah, they took them all to the 00:34:37.932 --> 00:34:42.942 village of Guru Kimm Ham near Bethlehem, where they prepared to leave for Egypt. 00:34:43.722 --> 00:34:47.412 They were afraid of what the Babylonians would do when they heard that Ishmael 00:34:47.412 --> 00:34:51.492 had killed Gedaliah, the governor appointed by the Babylonian King. 00:34:52.812 --> 00:34:59.202 Then all the military leaders, including Johanan, son of Korea and Zeniah son, OFE, 00:34:59.502 --> 00:35:04.482 and all the people from the least to the greatest approached Jeremiah, the prophet. 00:35:05.082 --> 00:35:08.652 They said, please pray to the Lord your God for us. 00:35:09.417 --> 00:35:13.917 As you can see, we are only a tiny remnant compared to what we were before. 00:35:14.757 --> 00:35:18.447 Pray the Lord your God will show us what to do and where to go. 00:35:19.557 --> 00:35:23.667 All right, Jeremiah replied, I will pray to the Lord your God, as you have 00:35:23.672 --> 00:35:25.857 asked, and I will tell you everything. 00:35:25.862 --> 00:35:28.437 He says, I will hide nothing from you. 00:35:29.577 --> 00:35:33.717 Then they said to Jeremiah, may the Lord your God be a faithful 00:35:33.717 --> 00:35:37.917 witness against us if we refuse to obey whatever he tells us to do. 00:35:38.547 --> 00:35:43.017 Whether we like it or not, we will obey the Lord our God to whom we 00:35:43.017 --> 00:35:45.447 are sending you with our plea for. 00:35:45.447 --> 00:35:48.807 If we obey him, everything will turn out well for us. 00:35:49.917 --> 00:35:55.347 10 days later, the Lord gave his reply to Jeremiah, so he called for Johanan, 00:35:55.347 --> 00:35:59.727 son of Korea and the other military leaders, and for all the people from 00:35:59.727 --> 00:36:04.587 the least to the greatest, he said to them, you sent me to the Lord, 00:36:04.677 --> 00:36:06.777 the God of Israel with your request. 00:36:07.167 --> 00:36:08.427 And this is his reply. 00:36:09.447 --> 00:36:10.917 Stay here in this land. 00:36:11.577 --> 00:36:15.237 If you do, I will build you up and not tear you down. 00:36:15.867 --> 00:36:20.337 I will plant you and not uproot you for I am sorry about all the 00:36:20.337 --> 00:36:22.347 punishment I have had to bring upon you. 00:36:23.397 --> 00:36:26.517 Do not fear the king of Babylon anymore, says the Lord. 00:36:27.207 --> 00:36:31.767 For I am with you and will save you and rescue you from his power. 00:36:32.397 --> 00:36:35.217 I will be merciful to you by making him kind. 00:36:35.802 --> 00:36:40.542 So he will let you stay here in your land, but if you refuse to obey the 00:36:40.542 --> 00:36:45.492 Lord your God, and if you say, we will not stay here, instead we will go to 00:36:45.492 --> 00:36:47.892 Egypt where we will be free from war. 00:36:48.072 --> 00:36:53.202 The call to arms and hunger, then hear the Lord's message to the remnant of Judah. 00:36:54.132 --> 00:36:57.522 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says. 00:36:58.212 --> 00:37:02.502 If you are determined to go to Egypt and live there, the very war and 00:37:02.502 --> 00:37:04.512 famine you fear will catch up to you. 00:37:05.157 --> 00:37:06.327 You will die there. 00:37:07.317 --> 00:37:11.487 That is the fate awaiting every one of you who insists on going to live in Egypt. 00:37:12.117 --> 00:37:15.837 Yes, you will die from war, famine, and disease. 00:37:16.467 --> 00:37:19.917 None of you will escape the disaster I will bring upon you there. 00:37:21.117 --> 00:37:26.157 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says, just 00:37:26.157 --> 00:37:30.057 as my anger and fury have been poured out on the people of Jerusalem, 00:37:30.402 --> 00:37:32.352 So they will be poured out on you. 00:37:32.442 --> 00:37:36.702 When you enter Egypt, you will be an object of damnation, horror, 00:37:36.822 --> 00:37:40.812 cursing, and mockery, and you will never see your homeland again. 00:37:42.102 --> 00:37:47.322 Listen, you remnant of Judah, the Lord has told you, do not go to Egypt. 00:37:48.222 --> 00:37:52.722 Don't forget this warning I have given you today for you are not being honest. 00:37:52.722 --> 00:37:57.702 When you sent me to pray to the Lord your God for you, you said, just tell us what 00:37:57.702 --> 00:37:59.742 the Lord our God says and we will do it. 00:38:00.807 --> 00:38:05.637 Today I have told you exactly what he said, but you will not obey the Lord your 00:38:05.637 --> 00:38:10.827 God any better now than you have in the past, so you can be sure that you will 00:38:10.827 --> 00:38:18.507 die from war, famine, and disease in Egypt where you insist on going when Jeremiah 00:38:18.507 --> 00:38:22.107 had finished giving this message from the Lord their God to all the people. 00:38:22.647 --> 00:38:27.597 Azariah, son of an johannan, son of Korea, and all the other 00:38:27.597 --> 00:38:29.637 proud men said to Jeremiah. 00:38:30.252 --> 00:38:34.332 You lie, the Lord our God hasn't forbidden us to go to Egypt. 00:38:34.932 --> 00:38:39.162 Barrick's son of Neriah has convinced you to say this because he wants us 00:38:39.162 --> 00:38:43.722 to stay here and be killed by the Babylonians or be carried off into exile. 00:38:44.802 --> 00:38:49.932 So Johanan and the other military leaders and all the people refuse to obey the 00:38:49.932 --> 00:38:54.972 Lord's command to stay in Judah, Johann and the other leaders took with them 00:38:55.242 --> 00:38:59.322 all the people who had returned from the nearby countries to which they had fled. 00:38:59.952 --> 00:39:04.812 In the crowd were men, women and children, the king's daughters, and 00:39:04.812 --> 00:39:09.072 all those whom Neba Radden, the captain of the guard, had left with Giah. 00:39:09.612 --> 00:39:12.552 The prophet Jeremiah and Barrack were also included. 00:39:13.452 --> 00:39:17.682 The people refused to obey the voice of the Lord and went to Egypt, 00:39:18.282 --> 00:39:20.472 going as far as the city of Ese. 00:39:22.392 --> 00:39:26.082 Then at ese, the Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. 00:39:26.562 --> 00:39:30.792 He said, while the people of Judah are watching, take some large 00:39:30.797 --> 00:39:34.362 rocks and bury them under the pavement stones at the entrance of 00:39:34.362 --> 00:39:36.372 Pharaoh's palace here in Japanese. 00:39:36.972 --> 00:39:40.932 Then say to the people of Judah, this is what the Lord of Heaven's 00:39:40.932 --> 00:39:42.912 armies, the God of Israel says. 00:39:43.602 --> 00:39:46.632 I will certainly bring my servant, Nebuchadnezzar King 00:39:46.632 --> 00:39:48.462 of Babylon here to Egypt. 00:39:49.152 --> 00:39:52.512 I will set his throne over these stones that I have hidden. 00:39:53.022 --> 00:39:55.422 He will spread his royal canopy over them. 00:39:56.382 --> 00:39:59.772 And when he comes, he will destroy the land of Egypt. 00:40:00.372 --> 00:40:04.812 He will bring death to those destined for death captivity to 00:40:04.812 --> 00:40:09.042 those destined for captivity and war to those destined for war. 00:40:09.672 --> 00:40:12.312 He will set fire to the temples of Egypt's Gods. 00:40:12.612 --> 00:40:16.302 He will burn the temples and carry the idols away as plunder. 00:40:16.752 --> 00:40:20.022 He will pick clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd. 00:40:20.022 --> 00:40:24.852 Picks fleas from his cloak and he himself will leave unharmed. 00:40:25.707 --> 00:40:28.857 He will break down the sacred pillars standing in the temple of 00:40:28.857 --> 00:40:33.057 the Sun in Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of Egypt's Gods. 00:40:34.707 --> 00:40:38.367 This is the message Jeremiah received concerning the Judeans living 00:40:38.367 --> 00:40:42.597 in Northern Egypt, in the cities of amygdala, tese, and Memphis, 00:40:43.137 --> 00:40:44.817 and in Southern Egypt as well. 00:40:45.777 --> 00:40:49.107 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says. 00:40:49.977 --> 00:40:53.757 You saw the calamity I brought on Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah. 00:40:54.492 --> 00:40:58.962 They now lie deserted and in ruins, they provoked my anger 00:40:58.962 --> 00:41:00.162 with all their wickedness. 00:41:00.672 --> 00:41:04.992 They burned incense and worshiped other gods gods that neither they 00:41:04.992 --> 00:41:10.782 nor you, nor any of your ancestors had ever even known again and again. 00:41:10.902 --> 00:41:13.752 I sent my servants the prophets to plead with them. 00:41:14.352 --> 00:41:19.002 Don't do these horrible things that I hate so much, but my people would not listen 00:41:19.272 --> 00:41:21.042 or turn back from their wicked ways. 00:41:21.702 --> 00:41:24.162 They kept on burning incense to these gods. 00:41:25.002 --> 00:41:30.252 And so my fury boiled over and fell like fire on the towns of Judah and 00:41:30.252 --> 00:41:34.812 into the streets of Jerusalem, and they are still a desolate ruin today. 00:41:36.012 --> 00:41:39.822 And now the Lord God of heaven's armies, the God of Israel, asks you, 00:41:40.452 --> 00:41:45.012 why are you destroying yourselves for not one of you will survive. 00:41:45.552 --> 00:41:49.872 Not a man, woman, or child among you who has come here from Judah, 00:41:50.262 --> 00:41:52.212 not even the babies in your arms. 00:41:52.902 --> 00:41:57.882 Why provoke my anger by burning incense to the idols you have made here in Egypt, 00:41:58.662 --> 00:42:02.952 you will only destroy yourselves and make yourselves an object of cursing and 00:42:02.957 --> 00:42:05.172 mockery for all the nations of the earth. 00:42:06.012 --> 00:42:10.032 Have you forgotten the sins of your ancestors, the sins of the kings and 00:42:10.032 --> 00:42:14.382 queens of Judah, and the sins you and your wives committed in Judah 00:42:14.387 --> 00:42:16.902 and Jerusalem to this very hour? 00:42:16.902 --> 00:42:19.002 You have shown no remorse or reverence. 00:42:19.602 --> 00:42:23.412 No one has chosen to follow my word and the decrees I gave to 00:42:23.417 --> 00:42:25.212 you and your ancestors before you. 00:42:26.382 --> 00:42:31.122 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says. 00:42:32.202 --> 00:42:34.782 I am determined to destroy every one of you. 00:42:35.967 --> 00:42:39.687 I will take this remnant of Judah, those who are determined to come here and 00:42:39.687 --> 00:42:41.937 live in Egypt, and I will consume them. 00:42:42.477 --> 00:42:46.167 They will fall here in Egypt, killed by war and famine. 00:42:46.917 --> 00:42:49.797 All will die from the least to the greatest. 00:42:50.337 --> 00:42:54.537 They will be an object of damnation, horror, cursing, and mockery. 00:42:55.167 --> 00:43:00.507 I will punish them in Egypt just as I punished them in Jerusalem by war, 00:43:00.657 --> 00:43:03.927 famine, and disease of that remnants. 00:43:03.927 --> 00:43:05.007 Who fled to Egypt? 00:43:05.397 --> 00:43:07.437 Hoping someday to return to Judah. 00:43:08.067 --> 00:43:09.447 There will be no survivors. 00:43:10.587 --> 00:43:14.757 Even though they long to return home, only a handful will do so. 00:43:16.347 --> 00:43:20.877 Then all the women present and all the men who knew that their wives had burned 00:43:20.882 --> 00:43:26.097 incense to idols, a great crowd of all the judeans living in Northern Egypt 00:43:26.187 --> 00:43:28.767 and southern Egypt answered Jeremiah. 00:43:29.472 --> 00:43:31.842 We will not listen to your messages from the Lord. 00:43:32.232 --> 00:43:33.822 We will do whatever we want. 00:43:34.332 --> 00:43:37.872 We will burn incense and pour out liquid offerings to the queen of 00:43:37.872 --> 00:43:39.942 heaven, just as much as we like. 00:43:40.602 --> 00:43:44.592 Just as we and our ancestors and our kings and officials have 00:43:44.592 --> 00:43:48.462 always done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. 00:43:49.242 --> 00:43:54.042 For in those days, we had plenty to eat and we were well off and had no troubles. 00:43:55.242 --> 00:43:59.202 Ever since we quit burning incense to the queen of heaven and stopped worshiping 00:43:59.202 --> 00:44:03.792 her with liquid offerings, we have been in great trouble and have been dying 00:44:03.792 --> 00:44:09.462 from war and famine besides the women added, do you suppose that we were 00:44:09.462 --> 00:44:13.722 burning incense and pouring out liquid offerings to the queen of heaven and 00:44:13.722 --> 00:44:18.852 making cakes marked with her image without our husbands knowing it and helping us? 00:44:19.572 --> 00:44:20.292 Of course not. 00:44:21.747 --> 00:44:24.987 Then Jeremiah said to all of them, men and women alike, 00:44:25.347 --> 00:44:26.697 who had given him that answer. 00:44:27.777 --> 00:44:32.217 Do you think the Lord did not know that you and your ancestors, your kings 00:44:32.217 --> 00:44:37.107 and officials, and all the people were burning incense to idols in the towns of 00:44:37.112 --> 00:44:39.207 Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 00:44:40.197 --> 00:44:43.677 It was because the Lord could no longer bear all the disgusting 00:44:43.677 --> 00:44:47.997 things you were doing, that he made your land an object of cursing, a 00:44:47.997 --> 00:44:50.037 desolate ruin without inhabitants. 00:44:50.682 --> 00:44:51.642 As it is today. 00:44:52.572 --> 00:44:56.232 All these terrible things happen to you because you have burned incense 00:44:56.232 --> 00:44:58.392 to idols and sinned against the Lord. 00:44:59.172 --> 00:45:03.792 You have refused to obey him and have not followed his instructions, 00:45:04.092 --> 00:45:06.222 his decrees and his laws. 00:45:07.332 --> 00:45:11.382 Then Jeremiah said to them all, including the women, listen 00:45:11.382 --> 00:45:12.792 to this message from the Lord. 00:45:12.972 --> 00:45:17.172 All you citizens of Judah who live in Egypt, this is what the Lord of 00:45:17.172 --> 00:45:19.482 Heaven's armies, the God of Israel says. 00:45:20.292 --> 00:45:26.172 You and your wives have said, we will keep our promises to burn incense and pour out 00:45:26.172 --> 00:45:28.032 liquid offerings to the queen of heaven. 00:45:29.082 --> 00:45:31.422 And you have proven by your actions that you meant it. 00:45:32.502 --> 00:45:37.812 So go ahead and carry out your promises and vows to her, but listen 00:45:37.817 --> 00:45:39.282 to this message from the Lord. 00:45:39.612 --> 00:45:45.912 All you now living in Egypt, I have sworn by my great name, says the Lord. 00:45:46.602 --> 00:45:51.282 My name will no longer be spoken by any of the judeans in the land of Egypt. 00:45:51.972 --> 00:45:57.252 None of you may invoke my name or use this oath As surely as the Sovereign 00:45:57.252 --> 00:46:03.162 Lord lives for I will watch over you to bring you disaster and not good. 00:46:03.642 --> 00:46:07.602 Everyone from Judah who is now living in Egypt will suffer war and 00:46:07.602 --> 00:46:09.972 famine until all of you are dead. 00:46:10.782 --> 00:46:14.772 Only a small number will escape death and return to Judah from Egypt. 00:46:15.732 --> 00:46:21.732 Then all those who came to Egypt will find out whose words are true mine or theirs. 00:46:22.872 --> 00:46:27.282 And this is the proof I give you, says the Lord, that all I have 00:46:27.282 --> 00:46:30.702 threatened will happen to you and that I will punish you Here. 00:46:31.632 --> 00:46:32.892 This is what the Lord says. 00:46:33.732 --> 00:46:38.652 I will turn Pharaoh Hora king of Egypt over to his enemies who want to kill him, 00:46:39.132 --> 00:46:44.292 just as I turned kings at CAA of Judah over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. 00:46:45.912 --> 00:46:50.232 The prophet Jeremiah gave a message to Barrick, son of Neriah in the fourth 00:46:50.232 --> 00:46:54.792 year of the reign of Je Hoya Kim, son of Josiah, after Barrick had written down 00:46:54.792 --> 00:46:56.832 everything Jeremiah had dictated to him. 00:46:57.462 --> 00:47:03.312 He said, this is what the Lord the God of Israel says to you, Barrick, you have 00:47:03.312 --> 00:47:05.472 said, I am overwhelmed with trouble. 00:47:05.952 --> 00:47:07.752 Haven't I had enough pain already? 00:47:08.352 --> 00:47:10.062 And now the Lord has added more? 00:47:10.692 --> 00:47:14.142 I am worn out from sighing and can find no rest. 00:47:15.687 --> 00:47:16.197 Barrick. 00:47:16.257 --> 00:47:17.547 This is what the Lord says. 00:47:18.417 --> 00:47:20.667 I will destroy this nation that I built. 00:47:21.117 --> 00:47:22.947 I will uproot what I planted. 00:47:23.637 --> 00:47:25.947 Are you seeking great things for yourself? 00:47:26.607 --> 00:47:27.327 Don't do it. 00:47:28.137 --> 00:47:32.487 I will bring great disaster upon all these people, but I will give you 00:47:32.487 --> 00:47:35.277 your life as a reward wherever you go. 00:47:36.357 --> 00:47:38.127 I, the Lord have spoken. 00:47:40.302 --> 00:47:43.182 This concludes today's Immerse Reading experience. 00:47:43.302 --> 00:47:44.532 Thank you for joining us.