• Jeremiah chapters 13-20
• Raiders invade Judah because of the famine.
  They come from Aram, Moab, Ammon, Chaldea.
  This is mentioned in Jeremiah 14 and 2 Kings 24:2,3.

1. Egypt and Babylon meet on the plain of Gaza for Battle.
2. Egypt is driven out of Asia but Babylon suffers heavy losses. Nebuchadnezzar returns to Babylon to rebuild his military.
3. Judah’s king Jehoiakim decides it is a good time to rebel against Babylon. Jehoiakim has been paying tribute for three years. In this fourth year he withholds his tribute.
4. Darius the Mede is born.

Egypt driven out of Syria & Israel

Babylon suffers heavy losses

Jehoiakim Rebels

1. Judah continues to be invaded by raiders from the East.
2. Cyrus the Persian is born.
3. Nebuchadnezzar marches back into Syria to begin collecting delinquent tributes in December.

Raiders

NebuchadnezzarReturns

1. Jehoiakim has not paid Judah’s tribute for three years.
2. Nebuchadnezzar has finished in Syria and heads into Judah to collect tribute.
3. December 7 Jehoiakim dies. Because of the continual raids from eastern people Jehoiakim has no burial. Instead his body is thrown over the Jerusalem wall. This fulfills Jeremiah’s prophecy to Jehoiakim in Jeremiah 22:18-19.
4. Jehoiachin, son of Jehoiakim and Grandson of Josiah, becomes king at age 18.
5. Jeremiah prophecies to Jehoiachin in Jer. 22:24-40

Jehoiakim Dies

Jehoiachin becomes King

1. February, Nebuchadnezzar arrives at the walls of Jerusalem and begins to besiege the city in order to secure the last three years of tribute.
2. March 10, Nebuchadnezzar seizes Jerusalem.
3. Jehoiachin is removed as king and Josiah’s third son, Zedekiah, becomes Judah’s last king at the age of 21.
4. Second Captivity: Nebuchadnezzar heads back to Babylon with 10,000 more captives in April. Included among the captives are:
1. 19 year old king Jehoiachin 
2. 25 year old craftsman who has been trained for the priesthood and will soon become a prophet, Ezekiel
5. Ezekiel settles in the captive’s colony on the canal TelAbib. Here he will work with the other captives craftsman and artisans for the next five years. At the age of thirty (592 BC) God will appear to Ezekiel and call him to be a prophet.
6. Jeremiah writes chapter 24.
7. Jeremiah writes a letter, chapter 29, and sends it to the captives in Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar
arrives at
Jerusalem

Zedekiah becomes King

Ezekiel Taken in
Second Captivity

Jeremiah Writes to the Captives

Jeremiah 24

Jeremiah 29

• Nebuchadnezzar fulfills Jeremiah 49:34 when he marches to Carchemish to drive out the Elamite raiders.  They are driven down the Tigris River.
• Nebuchadnezzar begins a thirteen year siege on Tyre. He never finishes the siege. Alexander does take Tyre in 332 BC. These prophecies are recorded in Ezekiel 26:1-21.

1. Zedekiah, along with Edom, Moab, Ammon, Trye, and Sidon, begins to plan a revolt against Babylon. (Jeremiah 27:3)
2. Nationalistic prophets are whipping up support for Zedekiah’s revolt by generalizing and mis-applying Scripture such as:
1. Isaiah 37:21-35
2. Psalm 2
3. Psalm 20         
4. Psalm 21
5. Psalm 72
3. August, Hananiah gives the false prophecy of Jeremiah 28.
4. October, Hananiah is dead as prophesied by Jeremiah in Jer. 28:16.
5. Nebuchadnezzar sends for Zedekiah to be brought to Babylon to interrogate him concerning the rumors he has heard of another Judean revolt.
6. Burach’s brother, Seraiah, accompanies King Zedekiah to Babylon. Seraiah is given a scroll from Jeremiah that contains prophecies of Babylon’s fall. Seraiah is to read it aloud in Babylon, tie it to a rock and throw it into the Euphrates. (Jer. 50, 51)

Zedekiah Plans a Revolt

False Prophets

Hananiah

Zedekiah Appears
Before
Nebuchadnezzar

Babylon Prophecy
Jeremiah 50-51

Jeremiah 27-28

Jeremiah 23

1. July 5, Ezekiel sees his first visions and is placed in the office of a prophet by God.
2. Ezekiel is 30 years old living with the craftsmen south of Babylon on the Kebar River.
3. Jeremiah is 55 years old living in Jerusalem.
4. Daniel is 30 years old and serving in the palace in Babylon or traveling as an ambassador for Nebuchadnezzar. He has been in Babylon 12 years

Ezekiel Sees Vision

Ezekiel 1-7

1. Ezekiel 8, 9, 10 – The glory of God leaves the temple.
2. Ezekiel 11 - Promised Restoration
3. Ezekiel 12 – Ezekiel digs through the wall.
4. Ezekiel 13 and 14 – False prophets are condemned.
5. Ezekiel 15-19

Ezekiel 8-11

Ezekiel 12-19