Jeremiah 1:2
accordingly as the word of God came to him in the days of Josias son of Amos king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
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1 Kings 13:20And it came to pass while they were sitting at the table, that 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 thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 1:11And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, What seest thou? And I said, A rod of an almond tree.
Jeremiah 36:2(after the departure of Jechonias the king and the queen, and the eunuchs, and every freeman, and bondman, and artificer, out of Jerusalem;)
Jonah 1:1Now the word of the Lord came to Jonas the son of Amathi, saying,
Zephaniah 1:1The word of the Lord which came to Sophonias the son of Chusi, the son of Godolias, the son of Amorias, the son of Ezekias, in the days of Josias 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 →