Jeremiah 37-39

Jeremiah’s Arrest and Imprisonment (37:1–21)

(1) The King’s Request for Prayer (37:1–5)

(2) Jeremiah’s Reply to the King (37:6–10)

(3) Jeremiah’s Arrest (37:11–15)

(4) Jeremiah’s Secret Interview with the King (37:16–21)

Jeremiah’s Confinement in a Cistern (38:1–28)

(1) The Demand for Jeremiah’s Punishment (38:1–6)

(2) Jeremiah’s Rescue from the Cistern (38:7–13)

(3) Another Secret Interview with Zedekiah (38:14–26)

(4) The Officials’ Questioning of Jeremiah (38:27–28)

The Fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians (39:1–18)

(1) The Capture of the City (39:1–3)

(2) Zedekiah’s Flight and Capture (39:4–7)

(3) Destruction of the City (39:8–10)

(4) The Release of Jeremiah (39:11–14)

(5) Promise of Deliverance for Ebed-Melech (39:15–18)

Outline From F. B. Huey, Jeremiah, Lamentations, vol. 16, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1993), 327-345

Reading from NIV, 2011