Jeremiah 1:4

The Lord came and told me,

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In The King James Version

Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

In Context

3and on through the time of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, up to the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, son of Josiah, king of Judah, which was when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.

5“I knew exactly who you would be before I created you in your mother's womb; I chose you before you were born to be a prophet to the nations.”

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Cross References

Ezekiel 1:3a message from Lord was given to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of Babylonia by the River Kebar. There the Lord's power came over him.)

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 →

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