S4E2: Historical Deep Dive: The Prophet Jeremiah

 It was the late seventh century before Christ, and the kingdom of Judah was in a season of both reform and gathering storm clouds. The mighty Assyrian Empire, which had crushed the northern kingdom of Israel over a century earlier, was itself weakening and collapsing. Into that power vacuum stepped new players: the rising Babylonians under Nabopolassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar, the Egyptians under Pharaoh Neco, and the fading remnants of Assyrian influence. Judah, that small strip of land between these giants, found itself caught in the middle—politically vulnerable, spiritually adrift.