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  • 2 Kings 23:31View Full Chapter

    Jehoahaz rules Judah

    31 Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became king, and he ruled for three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal; she was Jeremiah’s daughter and was from Libnah.

  • 2 Kings 24:18View Full Chapter

    Zedekiah rules Judah

    18 Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal; she was Jeremiah’s daughter and was from Libnah.

  • 1 Chronicles 5:24View Full Chapter

    24 These were the heads of their households:

    Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel—mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their households.

  • 1 Chronicles 12:4View Full Chapter

    Ishmaiah from Gibeon, a warrior in the Thirty and a leader over the Thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad from Gederah;

  • 1 Chronicles 12:10View Full Chapter

    10 Mishmannah fourth, Jeremiah fifth,

  • 1 Chronicles 12:13View Full Chapter

    13 Jeremiah tenth, Machbannai eleventh.

  • 2 Chronicles 35:25View Full Chapter

    25 Jeremiah composed a funeral song for Josiah, and to this day every singer, man or woman, continues to remember Josiah in their funeral songs. They are now traditional in Israel and are written down among the funeral songs.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:12View Full Chapter

    12 He did what was evil in the Lord his God’s eyes and didn’t submit before the prophet Jeremiah, who spoke for the Lord.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:21View Full Chapter

    21 This is how the Lord’s word spoken by Jeremiah was carried out. The land finally enjoyed its sabbath rest. For as long as it lay empty, it rested, until seventy years were completed.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:22View Full Chapter

    Cyrus’ decree

    22 In the first year of Persia’s King Cyrus, to carry out the Lord’s promise spoken through Jeremiah, the Lord moved Persia’s King Cyrus to issue the following proclamation throughout his kingdom, along with a written decree:

  • Jeremiah 1View Full Chapter

    Introduction

    These are the words of Jeremiah, Hilkiah’s son, who was one of the priests from Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. The Lord’s word came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of Judah’s King Josiah, Amon’s son, and throughout the rule of Judah’s King Jehoiakim, Josiah’s son, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of King Zedekiah, Josiah’s son, when the people of Jerusalem were taken into exile.

    Call of Jeremiah

    The Lord’s word came to me:

    “Before I created you in the womb I knew you;
        before you were born I set you apart;
        I made you a prophet to the nations.”
    “Ah, Lord God,” I said, “I don’t know how to speak
        because I’m only a child.”
    The Lord responded,
        “Don’t say, ‘I’m only a child.’
            Where I send you, you must go;
            what I tell you, you must say.
    Don’t be afraid of them,
        because I’m with you to rescue you,”
            declares the Lord.
    Then the Lord stretched out his hand,
        touched my mouth, and said to me,
        “I’m putting my words in your mouth.
    10 This very day I appoint you over nations and empires,
        to dig up and pull down,
        to destroy and demolish,
        to build and plant.”

    Jeremiah’s mission confirmed

    11 The Lord asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?”

    I said, “A branch of an almond tree.”

    12 The Lord then said, “You are right, for I’m watching over my word until it is fulfilled.” 13 The Lord asked me again, “What do you see?”

    I said, “A pot boiling over from the north.”

    14 The Lord said to me, “Trouble will erupt from the north against the people of this land.”

    15 I’m calling for all the tribes of great nations from the north, says the Lord, and they will set up their rulers by the entrances of Jerusalem, on its walls, and in every city of Judah. 16 I will declare my judgment against them for doing evil: for abandoning me, worshipping other gods, and trusting in the works of their hands. 17 But you must prepare for battle and be ready to utter every word I command you. Don’t be frightened before them, or I will frighten you before them. 18 Today I have made you an armed city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall against the entire land—the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests, and all its people. 19 They will attack you, but they won’t defeat you, because I am with you and will rescue you, declares the Lord.

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