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 reign.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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1 Kings 13:20And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back.
2 Chronicles 34:1Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 1:11Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 'Jeremiah, what seest thou?' And I said: 'I see a rod of an almond-tree.'
Jeremiah 36:2'Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
Jonah 1:1NOW THE WORD of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying:
Zephaniah 1:1THE WORD of the LORD which came unto 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 →