The Book of Jeremiah (Hebrew: ספר יִרְמְיָהוּ) is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the second of the Prophets in the Christian Old Testament.[1] The superscription at chapter Jeremiah 1:1–3 identifies the book as "the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah".[1] Of all the prophets, Jeremiah comes through most clearly as a person, ruminating to his scribe Baruch about his role as a servant of God with little good news for his audience.[2]
His book is intended as a message to the Jews in exile in Babylon, explaining the disaster of exile as God's response to Israel's pagan worship:[3] the people, says Jeremiah, are like an unfaithful wife and rebellious children, their infidelity and rebelliousness made judgment inevitable, although restoration and a new covenant are foreshadowed.[4] Authentic oracles of Jeremiah are probably to be found in the poetic sections of chapters 1 –25, but the book as a whole has been heavily edited and added to by the prophet's followers (including, perhaps, his companion, the scribe Baruch) and later generations of Deuteronomists.[5]
It has come down in two distinct though related versions, one in Hebrew, the other known from the Septuagint Greek translation.[6] The dates of the two (Greek and Hebrew) can be suggested by the fact that the Greek shows concerns typical of the early Persian period, while the Masoretic (i.e., Hebrew) shows perspectives which, although known in the Persian period, did not reach their realisation until the 2nd century BCE.[7]
The BookofJeremiah (Hebrew: ספר יִרְמְיָהוּ) is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the second of the Prophets in the Christian...
tradition, Jeremiah authored the book that bears his name, the Books of Kings and the Bookof Lamentations, with the assistance and under the editorship of Baruch...
prophet Jeremiah's scribe who is mentioned at Baruch 1:1, and has been presumed to be the author of the whole work. The book is a reflection of a late...
contains parallels to the Book ofJeremiah 49:7–22. The passage in the BookofJeremiah dates from the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim (604 BCE), and...
Letter ofJeremiah, also known as the Epistle ofJeremiah, is a deuterocanonical bookof the Old Testament; this letter is attributed to Jeremiah and addressed...
number of vinedressers and husbandmen were permitted to remain in the land (Jeremiah 52:16). Zedekiah's first appearance in the BookofJeremiah is in...
manuscripts of the work, meaning "things left out of (the Bookof) Jeremiah." It is part of the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible. Fourth Baruch is regarded as...
(Writings). The BookofJeremiah, Bookof Isaiah, and the Bookof Ezekiel are included among the Nevi'im. The Bookof Lamentations and the Bookof Daniel are...
"destroyer of nations" (משחית גוים, Jer. 4:7). The biblical BookofJeremiah paints Nebuchadnezzar as a cruel enemy, but also as God's appointed ruler of the...
Jeremiah 1 is the first chapter of the BookofJeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book, one of the Nevi'im...
Deuteronomistic history of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, and also the BookofJeremiah. The adjectives "Deuteronomic" and "Deuteronomistic" are sometimes...
Jeremiah 31 is the thirty-first chapter of the BookofJeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is numbered as Jeremiah...
Jeremiah 36 is the thirty-sixth chapter of the BookofJeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is numbered as Jeremiah...
David Jeremiah (born February 13, 1941) is an American evangelical Christian author, founder of Turning Point Radio and Television Ministries and senior...
one; the bookof Psalms; the Proverbs of Solomon; Ecclesiastes; the Song of Songs; Isaiah; Jeremiah, with Lamentations and the epistle (ofJeremiah) in one;...
Jeremiah 28 is the twenty-eighth chapter of the BookofJeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. The material found in...
destruction of the Kingdom of Judah in 597 BC, and the subsequent assassination of the Jewish governor, Gedaliah (2 Kings 2 Kings 25:22–24, BookofJeremiah Jeremiah...
Bible in the books of Exodus, Deuteronomy, Judges, the Books of Kings, the second Bookof Chronicles, and the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Micah. The term...
Jeremiah 33 is the thirty-third chapter of the BookofJeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is numbered as Jeremiah...
Jeremiah 25 is the twenty-fifth chapter of the BookofJeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies...
Biblical depictions of the exile include BookofJeremiah 39–43 (which saw the exile as a lost opportunity); the final section of 2 Kings (which portrays...
standard Hebrew text of the Bible. Five of these are in Leviticus, with one in 1 Kings, one in 2 Kings and another in The BookofJeremiah. Seven instances...
Jeremiah 29 is the twenty-ninth chapter of the BookofJeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is numbered as Jeremiah...
Jeremiah 34 is the thirty-fourth chapter of the BookofJeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is numbered as Jeremiah...
was the name of at least two priests contemporary with the prophet Jeremiah and who are mentioned in the BookofJeremiah. The name is of Egyptian origin...
as the core of the bookof Deuteronomy). Gedaliah was according to the narratives in the Hebrew Bible's BookofJeremiah and Second Bookof Kings, appointed...
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