- Analyse this summary (verses 6-37) of the history of God’s people. What can we learn here about the heart of God, and the heart of man?
- The Jews had learnt by bitter experience that disobedience brings penalty. Yet had God acted only in punishment? Cf. Ps. 130:3, 4. What can we learn from this chapter about the principles of God’s action towards his people when they sin? Cf. also Phil. 1:6; 2 John 8.