Explore the Period: Exile: 586 BCE - 539 BCE

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Lamentations 4:6-8 – The Experience of the Wealthy

Lamentations 3:1-18 – Metaphorical Descriptions of God’s Role

Lamentations 2:20 and 4:10 – The Horrors of Siege Warfare

Obadiah 15-18 – Judgment against the Nations and the Restoration of Israel

Daniel 10:1-12:13 – Your Allotted Inheritance

Daniel 9:1-27 – O God, Do Not Delay

Daniel 8:1-27 – Not by Human Hands

Daniel 7:1-28 – Your Kingdom Come

Daniel 6:1-28 – May Your God Rescue You!

Daniel 5:1-31 – The Writing on the Wall

Daniel 4:1-37 – The Proud Will Be Humbled

Daniel 3:1-30 – No Other God Is Able to Deliver in This Way

Daniel 2:20-23 – The King’s Dream and God’s Power

Daniel 1:1-21 – Given Over and Given Blessing

Ezekiel 40-48 – “The Lord Is There”: Israel Perfected and Blessed

Ezekiel 38:1-39:29 – The Lord Destroys Gog, the Enemy of God’s People

Ezekiel 37:1-14 – Valley of Dry Bones

Ezekiel 36:16-38 – New Heart, New Spirit

Ezekiel 33:1-20 – The Parable of the Watchman

Ezekiel 28:11-19 – Lament over the King of Tyre or Fall of Satan?

Ezekiel 23:1-49 – Samaria and Jerusalem, Two Wanton Sisters

Ezekiel 18:1-32 – Individual Repentance and Responsibility

Ezekiel 16:1-63 – Israel, the Unfaithful Wife

Ezekiel 11:22-25 – The Glory of the Lord Departs from Jerusalem

Ezekiel 11:14-20 – God’s Promise of Restoration

Ezekiel 10:15-19 – The Glory of the Lord Departs from the Temple

Ezekiel 6:8-10 – Some Are Spared Destruction

Lamentations 5:19-22 – Restore and Renew

Lamentations 4:21-22 – Enemies Undone

Lamentations 3:1-3, 22-24, 43-45 – Intense Petitioning for Relief

Lamentations 2:20-22 – Consider What You Are Permitting–and Doing!

Lamentations 1:1-6, 9d, 11c, 20 – Alone, but Speaking

Jeremiah 52:31-34 – A Future for Israel

Jeremiah 48:29-39 – The Tears of God

Jeremiah 42:7-17 – God’s Regret

Jeremiah 33:14-26 – Unconditional Promises

Jeremiah 32:1-44 – Is Anything Too Hard for God?

Jeremiah 31:31-34 – The New Covenant

Jeremiah 31:1-6 – I Have Loved You with an Everlasting Love

Jeremiah 30:1-22 – Be Not Afraid, I Am with You and I Will Save You

Jeremiah 29:1-23 – Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles: Seek the Welfare of the City

Jeremiah 28:1-17 – Jeremiah and Hananiah, the False Prophet

Jeremiah 26:1-19 – Jeremiah’s Arrest and Release

Jeremiah 23:1-8 and 33:14-16 – The Righteous Branch

Jeremiah 20:7-18 – Jeremiah’s Final Lament

Jeremiah 18:1-12 – The Potter and the Pots

Jeremiah 15:10-21 – More Laments from Jeremiah

Jeremiah 14:1-15:9 – Repentance That Comes Too Late

Jeremiah 13:20-27 – The Violence of Female Metaphors

Jeremiah 11:18-12:6 – A Lamb Led to the Slaughter

Jeremiah 9:23-24 – On Boasting

Jeremiah 9:10-19 – The Lament of God

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 – Is There No Balm in Gilead?

Jeremiah 4:19-31 – Personal Anguish at Creational Devastation

Jeremiah 3:1-5 – Does God Break the Law?

Jeremiah 1:4-19 – The Call of Jeremiah

Jeremiah 1:1-3 – The Historical Setting of the Preaching and the Book

Isaiah 61:1-3 – Liberty to the Captives

Isaiah 60:1-7 – The Nations Come with Gold and Frankincense

Isaiah 58:6-12 – The Fast that God Chooses

Isaiah 57:15 – The Holy God Dwells with the Humble

Isaiah 55:6-13 – God’s Word Does Not Return Empty

Isaiah 55:1-5 – Without Money and Without Price

Isaiah 52:13-53:12 – Wounded for Our Transgressions

Isaiah 52:11-12 – The New Exodus

Isaiah 52:7-10 – How Beautiful Are the Feet of God’s Messengers

Isaiah 50:4-9 – The Lord God Helps Me

Isaiah 49:14-18 – Can a Woman Forget?

Isaiah 47:6 – God’s Work and Babylon’s Responsibility

Isaiah 46:1-4 – I Will Carry and Will Save

Isaiah 45:22 – Turn to Me and Be Saved

Isaiah 45:5-7 – I Make Weal and Create Woe

Isaiah 44:23-45:8 – Cyrus: God’s Anointed Shepherd

Isaiah 44:9-20 – The Folly of Idolatry

Isaiah 43:22-28 – I Will Not Remember Your Sins

Isaiah 43:16-21 – Former Things and New Things

Isaiah 43:1-7 – I Will Be with You

Isaiah 42:5-9 – The Mission of God’s People

Isaiah 42:1-4 – This Is My Servant

Isaiah 41:8-13 – My Friend Abraham

Isaiah 40:29-31 – Mount Up with Wings like Eagles

Isaiah 40:1-11 – Comfort My People

Psalm 137 – By the Rivers of Babylon

2 Chronicles 36:2-23 – Exile and Restoration

2 Kings 23:31-25:30 – The Final Days of Judah

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In 586 BCE the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem, destroyed the temple, and exiled many of the Jewish elites from their homeland. This was a profound political, social, and theological crisis that spurred significant reflection. Many of the Old Testament writings were compiled or completed during this period and its immediate aftermath.

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