Sections of The Book
The book can be divided into roughly 6 sections and uses poetic, narrative, and biographical genres that are interspersed throughout the book. The breakdown of sections is as follows:
- Chapters 1-25 (The earliest and main core of Jeremiah's message)
- Chapters 26-29 (Biographic material and interaction with other prophets)
- Chapters 30-33 (God's promise of restoration including Jeremiah's "new covenant" which is interpreted differently in Judaism versus Christianity)
- Chapters 34-45 (Mostly interaction with Zedekiah and the fall of Jerusalem)
- Chapters 46-51 (Divine punishment to the nations surrounding Israel)
- Chapter 52 (Appendix that retells 2 Kings 24.18-25.30)
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