It came also... — The short reigns of Jehoahaz (three months) and Jehoiachin or Jeconiah (three months also) are passed over, and mention made of the more conspicuous reigns of Jehoiakim (eleven years) and Zedekiah (also eleven). Assuming Jeremiah to have been about twenty when the prophetic call came to him, he was sixty or sixty-one at the time of the captivity.
The whole period contained in this verse is no less than 40 years and 6 months, namely, 18 years under Josiah, two periods of 11 years each under Jehoiakim and Zedekiah, and 3 months under each of the...
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...
IT CAME ALSO IN THE DAYS. See note on Genesis 14:1. THE FIFTH MONTH. The month that Jerusalem was destroyed (Jeremiah 52:12; 2 Kings 25:3;...
Jeremiah 1:1-3. Title The Title is a composite one: Jeremiah 1:2 probably was intended simply to date the prophet's call, while Jeremiah 1:3 was added later to indicate that his activity was continue...
_in the fifth month_ See ch. Jeremiah 52:12 ff. The city had been captured in the preceding month (2 Kings 25:4; 2 Kings 25:8-10)....
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....
THE FIFTH MONTH] i.e. when Jerusalem was destroyed (2 Kings 25:3; 2 Kings 25:8). 4-10. Jeremiah's call and first prophecy....
וַ יְהִ֗י בִּ ימֵ֨י יְהֹויָקִ֤ים בֶּן ־יֹאשִׁ
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...
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the (e) son of Josiah king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the...
Joakim. His immediate predecessor and successor, both called Jechonias, (Haydock) are passed over, as their reign was short, (Calmet) only lasting three months each. (Haydock) --- Fifth. Jerusalem was...
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...
As to the beginning of his time and its termination, it has been briefly shewn, why he says that he had been chosen a prophet _in the thirteenth year of Josiah, _and that he discharged his office till...
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...
AND IT CAME ALSO IN THE DAYS OF JEHOIAKIM, THE SON OF JOSIAH KING OF JUDAH,.... In the beginning of his reign, and in the fourth year of his reign; see Jeremiah 25:1, no mention is made of Jehoahaz, w...
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the...
_It came also_ Namely, _the word of the Lord_, as Jeremiah 1:2; _in the days of Jehoiakim_ Called at first by Josiah, _Eliakim, 2 Kings 23:34_. It must be observed, that Jehoahaz, who reigned before h...
THE SUPERSCRIPTION...
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem, that is,...
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...
IT, viz. the word of the Lord, as JEREMIAH 1:2, CAME ALSO IN THE DAYS OF JEHOIAKIM; called at first by Josiah, Eliakim, 2 KINGS 23:34. Jehoahaz and Jehoiachin, whereof the former reigned before him, 2...
Jeremiah 1:3 days H3117 Jehoiakim H3079 son H1121 Josiah H2977 king H4428 Judah H3063 end H8552 (H8800) eleventh...
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...
FIFTH MONTH That is, August....
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 1:3 JEHOIAKIM appears as the book’s villain. He ruled c. 609–598 B.C. He hated Jeremiah’s preaching (Jeremiah 36:1). He favored Egyp
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...
2 Chronicles 36:11; 2 Chronicles 36:5; 2 Kings 24:17; 2 Kings 24:1;...
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...
It — The word of the Lord. Jehoiakim — Called at first by Josiah, Eliakim. Jehoahaz and Jehoiakin, whereof the former reigned before him, the latter succeeded, are conceived not to be mentioned, becau...