Jeremiah 1:1

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH

Chronological notes relative to the commencement of Jeremiah's prophesying

-Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3375.

-Year from the Deluge, according to the generally received Hebrew text, conferred withActs 7:4, 1719.

-Fourth year of the thirty-seventh Olympiad.

-Year from the building of Rome according to the Varronian account, 125.

-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 629.

-Twelfth year of Ancus Martius, the fourth king of the Romans: this was the one hundred and twentieth year before the expulsion of the Tarquins.

-Nineteenth year of Phraortes, the second king of Media.

-Twenty-third year of Archidamus, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Proclidae.

-Sixteenth year of Eurycrates II., king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Eurysthenidae.

-Third year of Sadyattes, king of Lydia, which was the eighty-second year before the conquest of this kingdom by Cyrus.

-Twelfth year of Philip, the sixth king of Macedon, or the two hundred and ninety-third before the commencement of the reign of Alexander the Great.

-Thirteenth year of Josiah, king of Judah.

-Epoch of the building of Cyrene by Battus, according to some chronologers.

CHAPTER I

General title to the whole Book, 1-3.

Jeremiah receives a commission to prophesy concerning nations

and kingdoms, a work to which in the Divine purpose he had been

appointed before his birth, 4-10.

The vision of the rod of an almond tree and of the seething

pot, with their signification, 11-16.

Promises of Divine protection to Jeremiah in the discharge of

the arduous duties of his prophetical office, 17-19.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse. Jeremiah 1:1. The words of Jeremiah] These three verses are the title of the Book; and were probably added by Ezra when he collected and arranged the sacred books, and put them in that order in which they are found in Hebrew Bibles in general. For particulars relative to this prophet, the times of his prophesying, and the arrangement of his discourses, see the introduction.

Eleventh year of Zedekiah] That is, the last year of his reign; for he was made prisoner by the Chaldeans in the fourth month of that year, and the carrying away of the inhabitants of Jerusalem was in the fifth month of the same year.