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Who was Jeremiah in the Bible? Jeremiah was a prophet and the son of a Jewish priest.
- The Book of Jeremiah bears his name and chronicles his calling from God.
- God who knew Jeremiah before he was formed and ordained him to be a prophet to Israel's falling way and many other themes.
- He is known as the weeping prophet.
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- Jeremiah was a Hebrew prophet, reformer
- He was the last prophet that God sent to preach to the southern kingdom.
- He is known as the Weeping Prophet. Bible Verses About Not Giving Up (Powerful)
- Jeremiah was a man called to be a prophet to deliver God's message to Judah
- He was born of priestly parentage, toward the middle of the seventh century, in the little town of Anathoth
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The Book of Jeremiah Chapter 1
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
2 to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
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4 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified[a] you;
I [b]ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
6 Then said I:
“Ah, Lord God!
Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.”
7 But the Lord said to me:
“Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’
For you shall go to all to whom I send you,
And whatever I command you, you shall speak.
8 Do not be afraid of their faces,
For I am with you to deliver you,” says the Lord.
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