Quotes About History

And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ëWhy has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?í

Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ëAlas, my brother! Alas, my sister!í They will not mourn for him: ëAlas, my master! Alas, his splendor!í

So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ëAs surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.í

This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people;

Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

all the kings of Tyre and Sidon; the kings of the coastlands across the sea;

all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;

all the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media;

Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: Elnathan son of Achbor along with some other men.

Send word to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Sidon through the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem.

The prophets of old who preceded you and me prophesied war, disaster, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.

And in the seventh month of that very year, the prophet Hananiah died.

(This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)

The letter was entrusted to Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It stated:

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.

You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and You do so to this very day, both in Israel and among all mankind. And You have made a name for Yourself, as is the case to this day.

You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.

You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

as the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the remaining cities of Judah—against Lachish and Azekah. For these were the only fortified cities remaining in Judah.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:

In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.