Jeremiah 33:14-16

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Ancient Lens

What can we learn from the historical context?

Exile and Catastrophe

There is debate about when this passage was written. Taken at face value, these verses can be identified with a concrete moment in history. The beginning of Jeremiah 32 says, “This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah King of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal…