1. Never Too Far Gone, Return O Israel

3. Judah’s Kings / Jeremiah Manasseh - 697 – 642 BC Amon - 642-640 BC Josiah - 640-609 BC Jehbahaz - 609 BC (3 mo) Jehoiakim - 609-598 BC Zedekiah - 597-586 BC Jehoiachin - 597 BC (3 mo) Jehoiachin - 597 BC (3 mo)

4. Baal & Asherah

7. Jeremiah 7:6-8 (NIV) If you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your forefathers for ever and ever.

8. Jeremiah 25:5-6 (NIV) “Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and your evil practices, and you can stay in the land the Lord gave to you and your fathers for ever and ever. Do not follow other gods to serve and worship them;…Then I will not harm you.”

9. Jeremiah 4:1-2 (NIV) If you return, O Israel, says the Lord, if you return to me… in truth, in justice, and in uprightness, then nations shall be blessed by [Judah], and by you they shall boast.

10. Jeremiah 3:12-13 (NIV) Return, faithless Israel,' declares the Lord, 'I will frown on you no longer, for I am merciful,’ declares the Lord, 'I will not be angry forever. Only acknowledge your guilt — you have rebelled against the Lord your God.

11. Jeremiah 6:16 (NIV) Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.

12. The Road Not Taken Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

13. Jeremiah 38:17 (NIV) Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "This is what the Lord God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: 'If you surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, your life will be spared and this city will not be burned down; you and your family will live.

14. Jeremiah 39:6-7 (NIV) The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and also killed all the nobles of Judah. Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

16. Never Too Far Gone, Return O Israel