Only five verses long, Jeremiah 45 captures God’s counsel to a tired scribe: while he overturns nations, do not chase greatness; receive your life as a prize. Baruch’s promise reframes ambition and steadies faithful service in a collapsing age.
Jeremiah 35 places the Rekabites in the temple as a living parable. Their steady fidelity rebukes Judah’s deafness and invites long obedience under God’s repeated call.
Jeremiah 26 turns worship into a courtroom where God invites reform so he may relent. The city spares Jeremiah, slays Uriah, and learns that sacred space cannot shield a people who refuse the Lord’s word.
Jeremiah 22 confronts the palace with God’s measure of true rule: defend the weak and do what is right. Cedar cannot cover injustice; judgment teaches a city to listen, and hope rises in the promised Branch who makes justice durable.
Chronicles ends with temple fire and exile, then a decree from Cyrus that opens the way home. God’s word judges with precision and restores with promise.
Babylon closes its grip, Jehoiachin surrenders, and Judah’s first deportation begins. 2 Kings 24 shows covenant justice at work while God preserves a people for future mercy.