46:1–51:64 Review · Oracles about the Nations: God, who has been named throughout as the “Lord of Hosts” (NIV “Lord Almighty”), will judge the nations. Egypt and Babylon were the two superpowers of that time. The other nations are for the most part geographically near to Israel. With these oracles Jeremiah fulfills in part his call to be a prophet to the nations.

46:1–28 · Both Egypt and Babylon were ancient empires, and both vied for the control of Palestine, Ammon, Moab, and other territories that lay between them.Necho ruled in Egypt from 610 to 595. Carchemish, on the Euphrates, was on the east-west trade routes sixty miles west of Harran. Nebuchadnezzar’s victory at Carchemish in 605 gave him access to the countries by the Mediterranean, including Judah. The long domination of Egypt…