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Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #22 chapters 43 and 44. Chapters 43, Johanan and all the people did not obey the LORD. They went to Egypt. The LORD said: Nebuchadnezzar will ravage the land of Egypt. Chapters 44, The LORD says: Why do you provoke me with other gods? The people said: We will not listen. The LORD says: I am go...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #21 chapters 41 and 42. Chapters 41, Ishmael killed Gedaliah and eighty men. Johanan went to fight Ishmael but he escaped. Johanan led the survivors on the way to Egypt. Chapters 42, The people asked Jeremiah to pray. The LORD says: If you stay in the land, I will grant you mercy. If you go to...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #20 chapters 39 and 40. Chapters 39, The Babylonians besieged Jerusalem and captured Zedekiah. They took the people into exile. Nebuchadnezzar said: Do not harm Jeremiah. Chapters 40, Nebuzaradan said to Jeremiah: Go back to Gedaliah, who has been appointed over Judah. The captains warned Geda...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #19 chapters 37 and 38. Chapters 37, Zedekiah became king. Jeremiah said: Do not think the Babylonians will leave us. Irijah arrested Jeremiah. Zedekiah gave him bread. Chapters 38, Jeremiah was thrown into a cistern. Zedekiah sent for him. Jeremiah said: If you surrender to the king of Babylo...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #18 chapters 35 and 36. Chapters 35, The Rechabites refused to drink wine. The LORD said to Judah: The command of Jonadab has been obeyed, yet you have not obeyed me. Chapters 36, Baruch read out Jeremiah's words at the temple. The king sent for the scroll and burned it. The LORD said: I w...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #17 chapters 33 and 34. Chapters 33, The LORD says: I will tell you great things. I will bring healing to the land. David will never lack a son on the throne of Israel. Chapters 34, Tell Zedekiah: You will not escape the king of Babylon. The people took back their slaves. The LORD says: You ha...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #16 chapters 31 and 32. Chapters 31, Sing with joy for Jacob! Return to your cities. I will make a new covenant with Israel, says the LORD. I will put my law within them. Chapters 32, Jeremiah bought a field in Anathoth. O LORD, the city has been handed over to Babylon. The LORD says: I will s...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #15 chapters 29 and 30. Chapters 29, Jeremiah wrote to the exiles: Seek peace for the city. After seventy years you will return. Ahab, Zedekiah and Shemaiah speak lies. Chapters 30, Write these words in a book. I will restore my people, says the LORD. I have punished you but I will heal you. I...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #14 chapters 27 and 28. Chapters 27, The LORD said: Put a yoke on your neck. I will hand all the nations over to serve Nebuchadnezzar. Do not listen to your prophets. Chapters 28, Hananiah took Jeremiah's yoke and broke it. The LORD said: Tell Hananiah, I have put an iron yoke on these nat...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #13 chapters 25 and 26. Chapters 25, You did not listen, says the LORD. So I will summon Babylon. Make the nations drink my cup of wrath. The LORD will roar from on high. Chapters 26, The LORD said: Speak in the courts. The priests seized Jeremiah to kill him, but the officials refused. Uriah...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #12 chapters 23 and 24. Chapters 23, I will raise up a righteous Branch, says the LORD. The prophets fill you with false hopes. I did not speak, yet they have prophesied. Chapters 24, The LORD showed me two baskets of figs after the exile to Babylon. The good figs are the exiles. The bad figs...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #11 chapters 21 and 22. Chapters 21, Zedekiah enquired about Nebuchadnezzar. The LORD says: Whoever stays in the city will die. Nebuchadnezzar will destroy it with fire. Chapters 22, Proclaim at the palace: I will make you a desert. Shallum will not return. They will not lament for Jehoiakim....

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #10 chapters 19 and 20. Chapters 19, The LORD said: Buy a clay jar. These people have burned sacrifices to foreign gods. Then break the jar. So I will smash this nation. Chapters 20, Pashhur put Jeremiah in the stocks. Everyone mocks me. But the word of the LORD is a fire in my bones. Cursed b...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #09 chapters 17 and 18. Chapters 17, Cursed are those who trust in man. Blessed are those who trust in the LORD. If you keep the Sabbath, Jerusalem will remain forever. Chapters 18, The LORD said: Go to the potter. You are clay in my hand, O Israel. My people have forgotten me. O LORD, they ha...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #08 chapters 15 and 16. Chapters 15, Send these people away from my presence! Who will mourn for Jerusalem? O LORD, I suffer insult for you. I am with you, says the LORD. Chapters 16, The LORD said to me: Do not marry or have children. Why has the LORD pronounced evil against us? You have foll...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #07 chapters 13 and 14. Chapters 13, The LORD told me to hide a sash in the rocks. So I will ruin the pride of Judah, says the LORD. All Judah will be carried into exile. Chapters 14, There is no water in the cisterns. O LORD, do not forsake us! I will destroy them by sword and by famine. Can...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #06 chapters 11 and 12. Chapters 11, Both Israel and Judah have broken my covenant. I will bring disaster. Do not pray for them. I will punish those who seek your life. Chapters 12, O LORD, why do the wicked prosper? I have left my house. Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard. I will uproot m...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #05 chapters 09 and 10. Chapters 09, No one speaks the truth. I will scatter these people, says the LORD. The sound of wailing is heard from Zion. I act with justice. Chapters 10, Do not learn the ways of the nations. The LORD is the true God. Listen, a great commotion from the north! They hav...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #04 chapters 07 and 08. Chapters 07, Proclaim at the temple: Has this house become a den of thieves? I sent prophets but you did not listen. Judah will become desolate. Chapters 08, Why do these people refuse to return? They have no shame. The LORD has doomed us because we have sinned. Is ther...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #03 chapters 05 and 06. Chapters 05, Israel and Judah have been utterly unfaithful to me. I am bringing a distant nation against you. Your sins have deprived you of good. Chapters 06, Flee from Jerusalem! I appointed watchmen but you would not listen. An army is coming from the north. My peopl...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #02 chapters 03 and 04. Chapters 03, Israel played the whore on every hill. Her false sister Judah saw it. Return, O faithless children! Surely the LORD is our salvation. Chapters 04, Flee to safety! I am bringing disaster from the north, says the LORD. I have heard the trumpet! The whole land...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Jeremiah. This is episode #01 chapters 01 and 02. Chapters 01, The LORD said to me: I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. Do not be afraid. I am calling the northern kingdoms against Judah. Chapters 02, Go and proclaim: My people have exchanged their glory for idols. You have all rebelled against me. Now I will...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Isaiah. This is episode #33 chapters 65 and 66. Isaiah 65, I held out my hands to an obstinate people. My servants will eat, but you will go hungry. I will create new heavens and a new earth. Isaiah 66, Listen! The LORD is repaying his enemies. Rejoice with Jerusalem and be comforted. All flesh will worship before me,...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Isaiah. This is episode #32 chapters 63 and 64. Isaiah 63, Why are your robes red? I have trampled the nations. Israel remembered who brought them through the sea. You, O LORD, are our father. Isaiah 64, Oh that you would rend the heavens! You meet those who do right. We are all the work of your hand. Do not remember o...

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Isaiah. This is episode #31 chapters 61 and 62. Isaiah 61, The Spirit of the LORD is on me. He has sent me to proclaim freedom. My people will inherit a double portion. I delight in the LORD. Isaiah 62, For Zion's sake I will not keep silent. You will be given a new name. Your God will rejoice over you. Raise a ban...