Jeremiah 45:1-47:7

45:1 | This message of hope to the faithful scribe, Baruch, was delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the same year in which Baruch went to the temple and read the scroll of Jeremiah’s prophecies.
46:1-12 | Jeremiah announced in advance that Egypt would fall to the Babylonians at the Battle of Carchemish in 605 BC. This defeat would bring judgement on the excessive pride of Egypt, which desired to cover the earth like the Nile flooding its banks.

46:13-26 | The Lord would bring further judgement on Egypt when Nebuchadnezzar invaded Egypt in 568 BC. This judgement would not be the end of the Egyptians because they would again live in their land as in the days of old.

46:27, 28 | The leaders of Judah looked to Egypt as an ally to help deliver them from the Babylonians (31:11), and Jeremiah’s message about Egypt’s judgement was an important reminder that the Lord was their source of security and the One who would save them.

47:1-7 | The Lord would use an army from the north as an overwhelming flood to destroy the Philistines, and Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the city of Ashkelon in 604 BC. The lord uses the kings and armies of the nations to accomplish His purposes. Nebuchadnezzar and his armies would become a sword of the Lord.