Jeremiah 1:2
The word of the Lord which came to him in the days of Josias the son of Amon king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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1 Kings 13:20And as they sat at table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet that brought him back:
2 Chronicles 34:1Josias was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one and thirty years in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 1:11And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou, Jeremias? And I said: I see a rod watching.
Jeremiah 36:2Take thee a roll of a book, and thou shalt write in it all the words that I have spoken to thee against Israel and Juda, and against all the nations from the day that I spoke to thee, from the days of Josias even to this day.
Jonah 1:1Now the word of the Lord came to Jonas the son of Amathi, saying:
Zephaniah 1:1The word of the Lord that came to Sophonias the son of Chusi, the son of Godolias, the son of Amarias, the son of Ezechias, in the days of Josias the son of Amon king of Juda.
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 →