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What you get in the Jeremiah Bible Atlas:
- Atlas of 58 high resolution maps about Jeremiah's world, when invaders leveled Jerusalem
- 69 PDF pages of resources
Jeremiah was the prophet who predicted and witnessed perhaps the worst tragedy in ancient Jewish history—on a scale with the Holocaust of the 1940s.
Israel erased from world map
Jeremiah, a man perhaps in his mid-50s, watched helplessly as Babylonian invaders from what is now Iraq erased his nation from the map. These invaders executed Judah’s government and religious leaders. Then they deported Jewish survivors from the Promised Land, exiling them to what is now Iraq.
The prophet wrote that he was “just a young boy” (Jeremiah 1:6) when God called him to become a prophet. He may have been as young as just 13, when Jewish boys began taking on adult responsibilities.
He spent about the next 40 years warning the kings and people of Judah that if they didn’t shape up, God would ship them out.
Jeremiah told them to quit worshiping idols and to start showing a sense of justice and mercy to the most vulnerable people among them: widows, orphans, and immigrants.
Roleplay prophecy
Jeremiah acted out some of his prophecies.
- He hid a cloth belt outside and left it there until it started to fall apart. Then he showed off the rag and quoted God: “Just as Jeremiah’s waistband became ruined, I will ruin the reputation of Judah and destroy the pride of Jerusalem” (13:9).
- He didn’t get married. He predicted, “Children and parents will die by swords and famine….Their dead bodies will feed the birds and wild animals” (16:4).
- He bought a clay jar and broke it in front of a crowd. Then he quoted God: “I’ll break this city and its people just like you break a clay jar. After that, there’ll be no picking up the pieces” (19:11).
When Jerusalem fell
Judah reached the point of no return, when it was too late to save the nation.
Babylonian invaders wiped out the walled cities of Judah, leaving Jerusalem for last. They freed Jeremiah because he had advised Judah’s King Zedekiah to surrender.
Babylonians appointed a local man as their approved governor of what was new the Babylonian province of Judah. All that remained of the Judeans were the poorest of the poor, whom the Babylonians left to tend the crops and livestock.
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