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Jeremiah

A weeping prophet announces covenant judgment and Jerusalem's fall while promising a righteous Branch, return, and a new covenant.

VISUAL BOOK OVERVIEW

To expose false security, interpret exile as covenant consequence, preserve prophetic truth, and announce restoration beyond disaster.

AUTHORSHIP / ATTRIBUTION

Centered on Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, with Baruch named as scribe; the book's arrangement differs between ancient textual traditions.

HISTORICAL + LITERARY SETTING

Judah's final decades, Babylonian ascendancy, Jerusalem's destruction, and the immediate aftermath.

SCRIPTURE PATHVISUAL EXPLANATIONCOMMENTARYSERMON APPLICATION

SEE THE BOOK · TEST THE ART

Four windows into Jeremiah.

Each frame is interpretive illustration tied to the text named beneath it. It is not a recovered portrait, photograph, or proof of a debated reconstruction.

01 · BOOK HORIZON

Prophet appointed

Jeremiah is known, called, touched, and commissioned over nations.

02 · PLACE HORIZON

Anathoth · Jerusalem · Temple

Judah's final decades, Babylonian ascendancy, Jerusalem's destruction, and the immediate aftermath.

03 · THEME HORIZON

Word of the LORD · Covenant breach · False worship

Trace Word of the LORD, Covenant breach, False worship inside Jeremiah before carrying those themes across the canon.

04 · CANON HORIZON

Jeremiah in the wider story

Use this scene as a visual cross-reference, then return to Jeremiah and name where the connection is explicit, supported, debated, or only illustrative.

EVERY CHAPTER · A VISUAL DOORWAY

Enter all 52 chapters of Jeremiah.

Every card opens the complete KJV chapter and carries a stable cinematic identity, its governing movement, and a visible reminder that illustration must remain accountable to the text.

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CHAPTER 1 · Prophet appointed

Jeremiah 1

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CHAPTER 2 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 2

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CHAPTER 3 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 3

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CHAPTER 4 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 4

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CHAPTER 5 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 5

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CHAPTER 6 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 6

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CHAPTER 7 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 7

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CHAPTER 8 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 8

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CHAPTER 9 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 9

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CHAPTER 10 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 10

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CHAPTER 11 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 11

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CHAPTER 12 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 12

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CHAPTER 13 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 13

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CHAPTER 14 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 14

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CHAPTER 15 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 15

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CHAPTER 16 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 16

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CHAPTER 17 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 17

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CHAPTER 18 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 18

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CHAPTER 19 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 19

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CHAPTER 20 · Covenant charges and confessions

Jeremiah 20

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CHAPTER 21 · Kings, prophets, and exile

Jeremiah 21

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CHAPTER 22 · Kings, prophets, and exile

Jeremiah 22

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CHAPTER 23 · Kings, prophets, and exile

Jeremiah 23

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CHAPTER 24 · Kings, prophets, and exile

Jeremiah 24

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CHAPTER 25 · Kings, prophets, and exile

Jeremiah 25

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CHAPTER 26 · Kings, prophets, and exile

Jeremiah 26

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CHAPTER 27 · Kings, prophets, and exile

Jeremiah 27

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CHAPTER 28 · Kings, prophets, and exile

Jeremiah 28

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CHAPTER 29 · Kings, prophets, and exile

Jeremiah 29

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CHAPTER 30 · Book of consolation

Jeremiah 30

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CHAPTER 31 · Book of consolation

Jeremiah 31

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CHAPTER 32 · Book of consolation

Jeremiah 32

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CHAPTER 33 · Book of consolation

Jeremiah 33

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CHAPTER 34 · Jerusalem's last days

Jeremiah 34

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CHAPTER 35 · Jerusalem's last days

Jeremiah 35

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CHAPTER 36 · Jerusalem's last days

Jeremiah 36

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CHAPTER 37 · Jerusalem's last days

Jeremiah 37

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CHAPTER 38 · Jerusalem's last days

Jeremiah 38

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CHAPTER 39 · Jerusalem's last days

Jeremiah 39

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CHAPTER 40 · Jerusalem's last days

Jeremiah 40

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CHAPTER 41 · Jerusalem's last days

Jeremiah 41

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CHAPTER 42 · Jerusalem's last days

Jeremiah 42

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CHAPTER 43 · Jerusalem's last days

Jeremiah 43

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CHAPTER 44 · Jerusalem's last days

Jeremiah 44

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CHAPTER 45 · Jerusalem's last days

Jeremiah 45

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CHAPTER 46 · Oracles against nations

Jeremiah 46

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CHAPTER 47 · Oracles against nations

Jeremiah 47

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CHAPTER 48 · Oracles against nations

Jeremiah 48

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CHAPTER 49 · Oracles against nations

Jeremiah 49

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CHAPTER 50 · Oracles against nations

Jeremiah 50

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CHAPTER 51 · Oracles against nations

Jeremiah 51

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CHAPTER 52 · Fall remembered

Jeremiah 52

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Illustrative scenes organize attention; they do not claim recovered likenesses, photographs, or certainty where the text and evidence do not supply it.

CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER ARCHITECTURE

See how Jeremiah moves.

Ranges summarize literary movement. They are a visual doorway into close reading—not a substitute for the text.

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CHAPTERS 1

Prophet appointed

Jeremiah is known, called, touched, and commissioned over nations.

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CHAPTERS 2–20

Covenant charges and confessions

Judah's unfaithfulness, false worship, threatened invasion, and Jeremiah's anguish.

03
CHAPTERS 21–29

Kings, prophets, and exile

Royal injustice, temple trust, symbolic acts, conflict, and a letter to exiles.

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CHAPTERS 30–33

Book of consolation

Return, healing, righteous Branch, new covenant, and renewed city.

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CHAPTERS 34–45

Jerusalem's last days

Broken promises, scroll burning, siege, fall, remnant, and Baruch's word.

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CHAPTERS 46–51

Oracles against nations

Egypt, Philistia, Moab, Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, Elam, and Babylon.

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CHAPTERS 52

Fall remembered

A historical appendix confirms Jerusalem's destruction and Jehoiachin's later release.

PEOPLE + COMMUNITIES

Who carries the movement?

PLACES + GEOGRAPHY

Where does it unfold?

GOVERNING THEMES

The load-bearing ideas.

Use these themes to trace repetition inside the book before following them across the canon.

THE BIBLE AS A CONNECTED LIBRARY

Jeremiah does not stand alone.

01

Jeremiah's temple sermon confronts religious confidence without covenant obedience.

02

The new covenant promise becomes foundational in Hebrews and Christian reflection on transformed hearts.

03

The book's ending parallels Kings, joining prophetic warning to historical fulfillment.

STUDY QUESTIONS

Return to the text.

  1. What kinds of false peace does Jeremiah reject?
  2. How do the prophet's confessions deepen rather than weaken his witness?
  3. What is new—and what is continuous—in the promised new covenant?