Author: Myron

Jeremiah 21:1-14.  Today’s reading jumps ahead in history to the final years of the kingdom of Judah.  After the decisive Battle of Carchemish in 605 BC Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, took control of the territory east of the Mediterranean Sea and the Babylonian Empire was born (technically reborn since there had been an earlier Babylonian Read more

Jeremiah 20:1-18.  Today’s reading continues the story from yesterday.  Jeremiah has just told the people of Jerusalem that trouble is coming; big trouble, it is coming from Yahweh (LORD the one true God) and that they have brought it on themselves.  In verse one a guy named Pashur, a chief priest in charge of the Read more