Jeremiah 1:2

Jeremiah's call came under good King Josiah, framing his ministry's start. It sets the political backdrop of his decades-long work.

Cross-references · 10

• Jer 1:11Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”
• Hos 1:1Yahweh’s word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
• Jer 1:4Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
• Mic 1:1Yahweh’s word that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
• Jonah 1:1Now Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
• 1 Kgs 13:20As they sat at the table, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet who brought him back;
• 2 Kgs 21:24But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
• 2 Chr 34:1–33Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
• Jer 36:2“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
• Jer 25:3From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, Yahweh’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.

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