Jeremiah 1:2

accordingly as the word of God came to him in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1The word of God which came to Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests, who dwelt in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

3And it was in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the eleventh year of Zedekiah king of Judah, even until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.

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Cross References

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 34:1Josiah 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 Jechoniah 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 Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

Zephaniah 1:1The word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah 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 →

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