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Jeremiah and Lamentations: Babylonian Crisis

  1. Lesson One
    The Prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1–6, 26–29, 35–38)
    19 Activities
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    4 Assessments
  2. Lesson Two
    Jeremiah: Idolatry and Anguish (Jeremiah 39–51)
    20 Activities
  3. Lesson Three
    Jeremiah: Shame and Dignity (Jeremiah 7–20)
    21 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  4. Lesson Four
    Jeremiah: A Future Hope (Jeremiah 21–25, 30–34)
    21 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  5. Lesson Five
    Lamentations
    21 Activities
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment
Jeremiah and Lamentations: Babylonian Crisis Lamentations In | Workbook: Lamentations in Context
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[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]

Read the three references to famine during the siege of Jerusalem below. 

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. 
2 Kings 25:3 NIV

 

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. 
Jeremiah 52:6 NIV

 

My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. They say to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives ebb away in their mothers’ arms. 
Lamentations 2:11-12 NIV

  1. How does Lamentations expand on the historical descriptions of 2 Kings and Jeremiah?