A

Ab (month), 427, 431

Achan, 144

acrostic, 428, 442

Ahikam, 238–40, 261, 325

Ammon, 391

Anathoth,45, 133

anguish, 118

Antiochus Epiphanes, 101

ark of the covenant,70

Asherah, 175

Assurbanipal, 29, 45

atonement, 434

Auschwitz, 476

B

Baal, 40, 59–60, 99–100

Baalis, 353

Babylon, 231, 262, 408–13, 430

Baruch, 19–20, 296–97, 326–27, 342, 368–69

blasphemy, 238

blues music, 164

Book of Hope/Consolation, 267

Booth, John W., 356

Branch (royal), 218, 304

C

Calvin, John, 170, 435, 477

celibacy, 169–70

Chemosh, 390

child sacrifice, 103

Christ as prophet/priest/king, 25, 137, 164, 211, 274, 306, 422–23

chronology, 26–28, 332, 373, 388–89, 409, 419–20

circumcision, 85

Columbine High School, 244

Coptic Church, 370

corporate identity, 90–91

covenant, 122–24, 126, 287–89, 297

cup of wrath, 468

Cyrus, 412

D

Damascus, 393

Daniel, 30, 232

David, 205–6, 218, 273, 304

Decalogue, 98–99, 175

Deuteronomy, 123–24, 199

divorce, 68–69

drought, 152, 156–58

E

Ebed-Melech, 333, 341–42

Edom, 392, 429, 468

Egypt, 335, 359, 364–65, 388–89

Elam, 393

Elasah, 261

Eli, 304

entropy, 92

Euphrates, 143–44, 374

Evil-Merodach, 419

F

faithfulness, 212

false prophets, 221, 254–58, 263

foe from North, 32

funerals, 428

G

Gedaliah, 31–32, 346, 352, 354–56, 419

Gemariah, 327

God, council of, 220; creator, 35–36, 116; judge, 157, 373, 412; justice of, 115, 411; lovingkindness, 459; name of, 98–99, 169–70, 233; repentance of, 187–88; righteousness, 115, 138; savior, 257, 411; sovereignty of, 188–89, 249; triune, 24–25; uniqueness, 39–41; warrior, 86, 200

Gulf War, 374

H

Hanamel, 296

Hananiah, 253–55

heart, 85, 93, 174–76, 226, 297

Hezekiah, 240–41

Hinnom, Valley of, 100, 186–87

Hophra, 365

I

idolatry, 63

intercession, 163

interpreting prophecy, 23–26, 267–71

Ishmael (son of Nethaniah), 353

Israel, election of, 36; faithless sister, 68–69; female personification, 114; northern kingdom, 268–69; promises to, 291–92

J

Jehoahaz, 30, 205–7

Jehoiachin, 31, 205, 210–11, 224

Jehoiakim, 30–31, 97, 152, 205, 208, 231, 237–38, 325–28, 335, 388

Jeremiah, arrests, 192, 336; call, 49–50; celibacy, 167–70; lamb, 133; “passion narrative,” 332; sketch of life, 32–34

Jerusalem, as adulteress, 60; destruction of, 28, 335–36, 341–42, 346–47, 419–20; female personification, 59, 134, 154, 426, 429–30, 443, 450; sieges of, 295, 309–10, 335, 346, 418–20

Johanan, 353, 358–59

Josiah, 26–30, 208, 212, 427

Judah, faithless sister, 68–69; female personification, 114; house of God, 134; justice, 206, 209–10, 218

K

Kedar, 393

Kenites, 318

Kennedy, J. F. Jr., 446

Koresh, David, 321

L

Lachish, 310

lament/lamentation, 114–15, 132–40, 160–65, 426, 429, 474–75

land, 38–39, 59

Last Supper, 289

Lynch, Thomas, 469–70

M

Manasseh, 155, 467

Mandela, Nelson, 307

marriage, 9, 68–69, 124, 169–70

Micah, 206, 239

Milosevic, Slobodan, 395, 414

Mizpah, 353, 358

Moab, 390–91

Molech, 100, 391–92

Moses, 122–24, 154, 200, 422

Mother Teresa, 290

Mowinckel, Sigmund, 22

N

Nebuchadnezzar, 30–32, 152, 199, 224, 231–32, 248–50, 325, 364, 388

Nebuzaradan, 352

Neco, 388

new covenant, 127

Niebuhr, H. Richard, 320

O

oracles against foreign nations, 372–75

P

Pashhur, 193–94, 198–99

Perath, 143

persecution, 132–37, 195–96, 337

Philistines, 389

polytheism, 63–64

prayer, 125–26, 139, 264–66, 337, 453

Promise Keepers, 128, 313–14

providence, 234

Q

Queen of Heaven, 99, 365–67

Qinah, 115, 425

R

Recabites, 317–19

reconciliation, 307

redemption, 296, 300

release, 311

remnant, 225

repentance, 70–71, 185, 209

restoration, 276, 283, 303, 394–95

righteousness, 206, 218

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 348

S

Sabbath, 175–80

sacrifices, 99, 312

Samaria, 219

Samuel, 154

scribes, 113

Seraiah, 20, 297, 373, 412

shame, 196

Shaphan, 31, 240, 261, 326, 352

shepherds (rulers), 217–18, 221

Sheshach, 233, 410

Sheshbazzar, 276

Shiloh, 98–99, 238, 241, 304, 354

sin, 119–20, 177–78, 443

slavery, 309–13

Stott, J. R. W., 171

suffering, 138–40, 430–34, 460

symbolic acts, 143

T

temple, 97–99, 101, 113, 239, 248, 254, 427, 420, 431

Topheth, 100, 103, 186–87

Tutu, Desmond, 307

typology, 170

U

Uriah (prophet), 240, 328

W

Weston, Russell, 367

wisdom, 117–18

Z

Zedekiah, 31–32, 198, 218, 224, 247, 253, 295, 304, 309–10, 332–37, 341–42, 346, 419, 468

Zerubbabel, 211, 276

Zion, 426, 430