Jeremiah 7: Group Study Handout

How to use: read Jeremiah 7 aloud together, then take the questions in order. One page is enough for an evening.

Overview

Yahweh instructs Jeremiah to stand at the gate of the temple and proclaim to the people of Judah to amend their ways and actions (vv. 1-3). The people are warned not to trust in false claims about the temple’s security but to practice justice and not oppress others (vv.

Key verse

“For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt; then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.”
Jeremiah 7:5-7 (WEB)

Outline

Jeremiah 7:1–7 Call to Amend Ways
Jeremiah 7:8–15 Condemnation of False Security
Jeremiah 7:16–28 Rejection of Intercession
Jeremiah 7:29–34 The Consequences of Evil

Discussion questions

In v3, what does Yahweh ask the people to do to dwell in this place?
What actions does Yahweh condemn in v9 that the people are committing?
In v14, why does God compare the fate of the temple to that of Shiloh?
In v30, what specific abominations have the children of Judah set in the house called by God's name?
When have you trusted in 'lying words' (v8) instead of genuine obedience?

Go deeper

Passages that echo Jeremiah 7: 1 Samuel 15, Jeremiah 6, Jeremiah 11.

Before next time: read Jeremiah 8.