Jeremiah 1:3
And it was in the days of Joakim son of Josias king of Juda, until the eleventh year of Sedekias king of Juda, even until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
4And the word of the Lord came to him, saying,
Cross References
2 Kings 24:1In his days went up Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and Joakim became his servant three years; and then he turned and revolted from him.
1 Chronicles 3:15And the sons of Josia; the first-born Joanan, the second Joakim, the third Sedekias, the fourth Salum.
2 Chronicles 36:11Sedekias was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 25:1The Word that came to Jeremias concerning all the people of Juda in the fourth year of Joakim, son of Josias, king of Juda;
Jeremiah 28:1Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I stir up against Babylon, and against the Chaldeans dwelling therein, a deadly burning wind.
Jeremiah 37:1The Word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying,
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 →