Jeremiah 1:2
To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his rule.
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1 Kings 13:20But while they were seated at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had taken him back;
2 Chronicles 34:1Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.
Jeremiah 1:11Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch of an almond-tree.
Jeremiah 36:2Take a book and put down in it all the words I have said to you against Israel and against Judah and against all the nations, from the day when my word came to you in the days of Josiah till this day.
Jonah 1:1And the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,
Zephaniah 1:1The word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 1:2-4
Jeremiah The Prophecies of the Old Testament, as the Epistles of the New, are placed rather according to their bulk than their seniority—the longest first, not the oldest. There were several prophets, and writing ones, that were contemporaries with Isaiah, as Micah, or a little before him, as Hosea, and Joel, and Amos, or soon after him, as Habakkuk and Nahum are supposed to have been; and yet the prophecy of Jeremiah, who began many years after Isaiah finished, is placed next to his, because there is so much in… Read the whole commentary →