The Patience Of The Prophet Jeremiah ! Series

2. Notice in verse 2, that before Jeremiah was placed in the stocks Pashhur “smote” or “struck” Jeremiah. Commentators are in agreement that Jeremiah probably received a beating that consisted of 40 stripes. This would have added to the pain of being in “the bent over” uncomfortable position, while fastened in the stocks.

3. After being released Jeremiah will continue to show patience and faithfulness to preach God’s word.

III. THIRD, JEREMIAH 26:8 REPORTS THAT AFTER JEREMIAH GAVE A REBUKING PROPHECY FROM THE LORD THE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE AND ALL THE COMMON PEOPLE THREATENED TO KILL HIM.

1. Let’s read Jeremiah 26:8. 8 Now it happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You will surely die!”

2. The priest and the prophets should have been very grateful to hear a prophet of the Lord preach the word of the Lord, but they were possibly leading the common people in seizing Jeremiah and shouting to him, “you shall surely die”.

3. Jeremiah, in the future, patiently and persistently continues to do his job as God’s prophet, in spite of the threats to kill him!

IV. FOURTH, JEREMIAH 32:1-6, REPORTS THAT DUE TO HIS PROPHECY REBUKING THE KING OF JUDAH HE WAS SHUT UP IN PRISON.

1. Turn to Jeremiah 32:1-6. This passage reports that Jeremiah gave a warning to King Zedekiah of Judah. The king didn’t like the warning that stated that he and the children of Judah were going to be taken away in Babylonian captivity. Zedekiah shut Jeremiah up in prison. Since the warning came from God, the king should have known that the prophecy would come true whether Jeremiah was in or out of prison.

(1) The thing that King Zedekiah should have done was to repent and pray for God to forgive him and the children of Judah and ask God to prevent the Babylonian captivity. Instead he took his anger out on God’s prophet.

(2) Let’s read Jeremiah 32:1-6, “1 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. 2 For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house. 3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it; 4 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face, and see him eye to eye; 5 then he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall be until I visit him,” says the LORD; “though you fight with the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed”’?” 6 And Jeremiah said, “The word of the LORD came to me, …..”