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Jeremiah 1:2-4
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Jeremiah 1:2-4
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2 The Lord first spoke to him when Amon's son Josiah had been king of Judah for 13 years.[a] 3 The Lord also spoke to him while Josiah's son, Jehoiakim, ruled Judah as king. He continued to speak to Jeremiah until Josiah's son Zedekiah had ruled Judah for 11 years. In the fifth month of that year, Judah's enemies took the people of Jerusalem away as their prisoners.
God chooses Jeremiah to be a prophet
4 The Lord gave me this message:
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- 1:2 When we write Lord like this, it is a special name for God. Sometimes people write it as ‘Yahweh’, or as ‘Jehovah’. It is his own name that he told Moses. See Exodus 3:14. It means ‘I am who I am’. This shows that God has always been there and he always will be there.
Jeremiah 1:2-4
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Jeremiah 1:2-4
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2 The word of the Lord came(A) to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah(B) son of Amon king of Judah, 3 and through the reign of Jehoiakim(C) son of Josiah king of Judah, down to the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah(D) son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.(E)
The Call of Jeremiah
4 The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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