Jeremiah 1:1

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

The General Title or Introduction (Jeremiah 1:1); probably prefixed by Jeremiah when he collected his prophecies, and gave them to his countrymen to take with them to Babylon (Michaelis).

Anathoth - a town in Benjamin, twenty stadia, i:e., two or three miles, north of Jerusalem; now Anata (cf. , "O poor Anathoth," and the context, 28-32). One of the four cities allotted to the Kohathites, "children of Aaron," in Benjamin (). Compare , a stigma was cast thenceforth on the whole sacerdotal family resident there: this may be alluded to in the words here --

The priests ... in Anathoth. God chooses "the weak, base, and despised things" "to confound the mighty."