Jeremiah 1:1

Jeremiah 1:1

1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were ^ain Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

2 to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of ^aJosiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, ^bin the thirteenth year of his reign.

3 It came also in the days of ^aJehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, ^buntil the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, ^cuntil the carrying away of Jerusalem captive ^din the fifth month.

The Prophet Is Called

4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

5 “Before I¹ ^aformed you in the womb ^bI knew you;
Before you were born I ^csanctified you;
I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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(Jeremiah 1:1-3, 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, that is, two or three miles north of Jerusalem; now Anata (compare Isaiah 10:30, and the context, Isaiah 10:28-32). One of the four cities allotted to the Kohathites in Benjamin (Joshua 21:18). Compare I Kings 2:26-27; 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."

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 1:1:**

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