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Jeremiah 52 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Jeremiah 52, 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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Jeremiah 52 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
בָּבֶל Bâbel H894 15 Babel, Babylonia
טַבָּח ṭabbâch H2876 8 butcher, lifeguardsman
נְחֹשֶׁת nᵉchôsheth H5178 9 copper, coin
שָׁנֶה shâneh H8141 11 year, revolution
חֹדֶשׁ chôdesh H2320 8 new, month
עָשָׂר ʻâsâr H6240 8 ten, -teen
רַב rab H7227 8 abundant

How preachers through history handled this text

4 public-domain excerpts on Jeremiah 52, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Calvin 1 Matthew Henry 1 Alexander MacLaren 1 John Wesley 1

“AS SODOM' Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 2. And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 3. For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. 4. …”

— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah, on Jeremiah 52:1–30 (Public Domain)

Places in the text

Based on ancient-geography data

  • Jerusalem — Jer 52:1
  • Libnah 1 — Jer 52:1
  • Babylon 1 — Jer 52:10
  • Riblah 1 — Jer 52:10

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