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Jeremiah 24 — Sermon Preparation
Below is a research summary for Jeremiah 24, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 10
- verses
- 185 / 92
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 10
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Jeremiah 24 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| תְּאֵן | tᵉʼên | H8384 | 8 | fig |
| טוֹב | ṭôwb | H2896 | 6 | good |
| רַע | raʻ | H7451 | 5 | bad, evil |
| רֹעַ | rôaʻ | H7455 | 3 | badness, marring |
| יְהוּדָה | Yᵉhûwdâh | H3063 | 4 | Jehudah |
| דּוּד | dûwd | H1731 | 2 | pot, boiling |
| נָתַן | nâthan | H5414 | 4 | give, put |
How preachers through history handled this text
10 public-domain excerpts on Jeremiah 24, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“In the close of the foregoing chapter we had a general prediction of the utter ruin of Jerusalem, that it should be forsaken and forgotten, which, whatever effect it had upon others, we have reason to think made the prophet himself very melancholy. Now, in this chapter, God encourages him, by showing him that, though the desolation seemed to be universal, yet all were not equally involved in it, but God knew how to distinguish, how to separate, between the precious and the vile. Some had gone into captivity already with Jeconiah; …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 4 (Isaiah to Malachi), on Jeremiah 24:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Babylon 1 — Jer 24:1
- Jerusalem — Jer 24:1
- Chaldea — Jer 24:5
- Egypt — Jer 24:8
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