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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.

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Hebrew words / lemmas
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classic sermon excerpts
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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.

Calvin 7 Matthew Henry 1 Spurgeon 1 John Wesley 1

“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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