in the days of, etc.] See introductory note.
in the thirteenth year of his reign c.b.c. 626. The period included in these two verses is one of 40 years, viz. the latter part of Josiah's reign = 18 years; that of Jehoahaz = 3 months; that of Jehoiakim = 11 years; that of Jehoiachin = 3 months; that of Zedekiah = 11 years. The omission of the names of Jehoahaz and Jehoiachin is probably due to the shortness of their reigns.
CAME - literally, was (and in Jeremiah 1:4); the phrase implies that Jeremiah possessed God’s word from that time onward, not fitfully as coming and going, but constantly. THE THIRTEENTH YEAR OF HIS R...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE CALL TO REPENTANCE, THE IMPENITENCE OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED CHAPTER 1 The Call of the Prophet _ 1. The introduction (Jeremiah 1:1) _ 2. The divin...
TITLE, ascribing the prophecies which follow to Jeremiah, a man of priestly descent, belonging to Anathoth (see Introduction); his prophetic activity is said to have begun in 626 B.C. (the thirteenth...
THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME. It is remarkable that, in the four longer prophets, this _formula_ is almost entirely confined to the two who were priests (Jeremiah and Ezekiel). See App-82. Compare Genesi...
PART TWO CHAPTER FOUR THE CALL OF THE PROPHET Jeremiah 1:1-19 The prophets of Israel were launched upon their prophetic career by a definite call. Amos, the herdsman from Tekoa, declared that God t...
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. JEHOIAKIM ... JOSIAH ... ZEDEKIAH. Jehoahaz and Jehoiachin are omitted,...
THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY 1-3. See Introduction....
IN THE THIRTEENTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN. — If we take the _data_ of 2 Kings 22, Josiah was at that time in his twentieth or twenty-first year, having grown up under the training of Hilkiah. His active wor...
I. (1-3) The first three verses contain the title prefixed to the collection of prophecies by some later editor. This title would seem, from its unusual fulness, to have received one or more additions...
אֲשֶׁ֨ר הָיָ֤ה דְבַר ־יְהוָה֙ אֵלָ֔יו בִּ ימֵ
CHAPTER I THE CALL AND CONSECRATION IN the foregoing pages we have considered the principal events in the life of the prophet Jeremiah, by way of introduction to the more detailed study of his writin...
COURAGE PROMISED TO A FEARFUL MESSENGER Jeremiah 1:1-19 God has a distinct purpose for each life, and our one aim should be to discover and work out His plan. See Psalms 139:16; Galatians 1:15. The...
The first three verses constitute a title page naming the author and giving the dates of the period during which he exercised his ministry. The Book opens with the account of Jeremiah's call, and at o...
To whom the (d) word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. (d) This is spoken to confirm his calling and office, as he did not pre...
Having given his name, and family, and place of abode, he now mentions his commission, and the time of receiving it. So that the whole period of the Prophet's ministry, like the contents of a book, is...
_JEREMIAH’S CALL_ ‘Jeremiah … to whom the word of the Lord came.’ Jeremiah 1:1 I. THE CONSIDERATIONS EMPLOYED BY GOD TO INDUCE THE PROPHET TO UNDERTAKE HIS OFFICE.—It is obvious that the language i...
He begins in the second verse to speak of his calling. (8) It would have, indeed, been to little purpose, had he said that he came forth and brought a message; but he explains, in the second verse, th...
In chapter 1 the prophet is established in his office, to which he had been appointed by Jehovah, even before his birth, that he should carry His word unto the nations. But Jeremiah's fears are immedi...
TO WHOM THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME IN THE DAYS OF JOSIAH,.... This was the beginning of the prophecy of Jeremiah, so that he prophesied long after Isaiah, Hosea, Amos, and Micah; for this king was THE...
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. Ver. 2. _Unto whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah._] Woe b...
_The words of Jeremiah_ That is, the sermons or prophecies, the contents of which he received from God, that he might declare them unto the people, and which are comprised in this book under his name....
THE SUPERSCRIPTION...
to whom Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign....
1-10 Jeremiah's early call to the work and office of a prophet is stated. He was to be a prophet, not to the Jews only, but to the neighbouring nations. He is still a prophet to the whole world, and...
THE WORD OF THE LORD; either that commission from God that did authorize him to his prophetical work, as it may probably be taken, 1 THESSALONIANS 10:35, was actually given unto him, JEREMIAH 1:10; or...
Jeremiah 1:2 word H1697 LORD H3068 days H3117 Josiah H2977 son H1121 Amon H526 king H4428 Judah H3063 thirteenth...
INTRODUCTION. Jeremiah's prophecies are introduced in the usual way by naming the kings in whose reigns he prophesied. His initial call came in the thirteenth year of Josiah, at a time when the land w...
Jeremiah 1:1 I. (Jeremiah 1:4). The two great blessings of _election_and _mediation_are here distinctly taught. God did not speak to the nations directly, but mediationally. He created a minister who...
Jeremiah 1:1. The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Ju...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's call and enduement. The sign of the almond rod and seething pot. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Jeremiah, Josiah, Jehoiakim. CONCLUSION: God, by His special counsel and foreknowle...
Jeremiah 1:5. _Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._ In the creation God knew the nature and designations of every creature, whether of plants, or of living beings. He assigned laws and abod...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:1 Introduction. These verses introduce the book’s historical background (vv. Jeremiah 1:1), Jeremiah’s call and message (vv....
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:2 TO WHOM THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME. The text highlights that what follows comes from God. Jeremiah is God’s messenger....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. CHRONOLOGY. Jeremiah 1:1, penned _cir._ B.C. 578; Jeremiah 1:4, _sq._ B.C. 629. But the recently discovered Assyrian chronology would make the date of the “thirteen...
EXPOSITION AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC OFFICE, FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE...
At this time shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Jeremiah. About sixty years after Isaiah died, God called Jeremiah to what I feel must have been the hardest task any minister has ever been cal...
1 Kings 13:20; 2 Chronicles 35:27; 2 Kings 21:25; 2 Kings 21:26;...
JEREMIAH, THE WAILING PROPHET Jeremiah 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The ten tribes of Israel had passed into captivity before God called Jeremiah. Judah was following hard in the path of her sister natio...
The word — That commission from God that authorized him to his prophetic work, for the space of forty — one years successively in Judea, viz. from the 13th year of Josiah to the 11th year of Zedekiah,...