After the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan, the Ark remained in the Tabernacle at Gilgal for a season before being removed to Shiloh until the time of Eli, between 300 and 400 years ( Jeremiah 7: 12 ), when it was carried into the field of battle, so as to secure, as they had hoped, victory to the Hebrews.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

In these passages, Jeremiah expresses his discontent with the message he is to deliver, but also his steadfast commitment to the divine call despite the fact that he had not sought it out.

It is important in one's reading of the text of Jeremiah that one remember that the recorder of these events ( i. e. the author of the text ) had neither the same audience nor, potentially, the same intent that Jeremiah had in performing these prophetic gestures.

The answers were recorded in the works of the prophets Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Second Isaiah, and in the Deuteronomistic history, the collection of historical works from Joshua to Kings: God had not abandoned Israel ; Israel had abandoned God, and the Babylonian exile was God's punishment for Israel's lack of faith.

There is also much material found in Obadiah 10-21 which Jeremiah does not quote, and which, had he had it laid out before him, would have suited his purpose admirably.

According to the Book of Jeremiah, and one of the Psalms (), Samuel had a high devotion to God.

Through the persuasion of Jeremiah Dummer, Yale, who had made a fortune through trade while living in India as a representative of the East India Company, donated nine bales of goods, which were sold for more than £ 560, a substantial sum at the time.

641-610 ), and was contemporary with Jeremiah, with whom he had much in common.

Jeremiah Black had taken him in as a junior partner a year before, and assigned the case to him in light of his highly reputed oratory skills.

He associated himself with local gentlemen interested in astronomy, including William Litchford, whose library included the work of the astrologer John Gadbury which included astronomical tables by Jeremiah Horrocks, who had died in 1641 at the age of twenty-three.

The Davidic line from Jeconiah had been cursed by Jeremiah saying that no descendant of " Coniah " would ever sit on the throne again ( Jer. 22: 30 ).

Upon being set free in the morning, Jeremiah went to Pashur ( Jeremiah 20: 3, 5 ) and announced to him that God had changed his name to Magor-missabib, i. e., " terror on every side " and that he would be later carried captive to Babylon and die there.

Necho's dream of restoring the Egyptian Empire in the Middle East as had occurred under the New Kingdom was destroyed as Nebuchadrezzar conquered Egyptian territory from the Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt ( Jeremiah 46: 2 ; 2 Kings 23: 29 ) down to Judea.

Even though he had a joyful early life, the difficulties in the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations have prompted scholars to refer to him as " the weeping prophet.

The Lord called Jeremiah to prophetic ministry in about 626 BC, about one year after Josiah king of Judah had turned the nation toward repentance from the widespread idolatrous practices of his father and grandfather.

The Lord had Jeremiah speak against these false prophets.

Jeremiah accordingly went to Mizpah in Benjamin with Gedaliah, who had been made governor of Judea.

Much like the prophet Isaiah who had to walk stripped and barefoot for three years and the prophet Ezekiel who had to lie on his side for 390 days and eat measured food, Jeremiah is instructed to perform a number of prophetic parables to illustrate the Lord ’ s message to his people.

Parts of the Book of Jeremiah have also been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls in cave 4 in Qumran.

In fact, due to the repetitious nature of some of phrases or intertextuality with Jeremiah, an argument has been put forth that the “ historical Jeremiah ” is hard to validate and should be abandoned.

By contrast, evidence based on the textual differences between the Septuagint and the Masoretic Text has been used to argue that the context of the MT truly does depict a historical Jeremiah.

The book of Jeremiah depicts a remarkably introspective prophet, a prophet who was impetuous and often angered by the role into which he has been thrust.

However, Jeremiah ’ s laments are made unique by his insistence that he has been called by Yahweh to deliver his messages.

The Letter of Jeremiah ( or Baruch chapter 6 ) has been found in cave 7 ( 7Q5 ) in Greek.

Ezekiel, like Jeremiah, is said by Talmud and Midrash to have been a descendant of Joshua by his marriage with the proselyte Rahab.

The Jewish Sages themselves considered this a prophetic work that was written during the time of the Prophet Jeremiah by his colleagues, but these latter prophets then attributed their result to king Solomon, just as other writings of Jewish Scripture have been written by one prophet while being attributed to another, such as the Book of Hosea, Isaiah, and others.

1 ) The son of Maaseiah, the " second priest " in the reign of Zedekiah, often mentioned in Jeremiah as having been sent from the king to inquire ( Jer.

So far, only Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel have been published.

As a starkly different translation the title " worker ", Rashi on Exodus 29: 30 and " servant " Targum to Jeremiah 48: 7, have been offered as a translation as well.

It has been interpreted that Jeremiah “ spiritualized and individualized religion and insisted upon the primacy of the individual ’ s relationship with God .”

Since Jeremiah emerges well trained and fully literate from his earliest preaching, the relationship between him and the Shaphan family has been used to suggest that he may have trained at the scribal school in Jerusalem over which Shaphan presided.

Jeremiah has periodically been a popular first name in the United States, beginning with the early Puritan settlers, who often took the names of Biblical prophets and apostles.

Jeremiah has been very successful, both critically and commercially, in Europe and has a large fan base.

An American television series, Jeremiah, has been created based on the comic series.

He also played semi-professional football under the pseudonym " Jeremiah Schwartz " -- it was not his birth name as has been erroneously reported elsewhere.

The chief literature of all the heretical sects throughout the ages has been that of apocryphal Biblical narratives, and the popes Jeremiah or Bogumil are directly mentioned as authors of such forbidden books " which no orthodox dare read.

Rather than waiting for the 50th or 49th year, the Deuteronomic code requires that Hebrew slaves be liberated during their 7th year of service, as does the Covenant Code, which some textual scholars regard as pre-dating the Holiness Code ; the Book of Ezekiel, which some textual scholars also regard as earlier than the Holiness Code, refers to a year of liberty (< big > שנת דרור </ big >), during which property is returned to the original owner ( or their heirs ), but the word < big > דרור </ big > is used by Jeremiah to describe the release of slaves during the Sabbatical year, which various scholars take to imply that Ezekiel must have been referring to the sabbatical year.

Timothy Dwight IV, President of Yale University, along with Williams College President Ebenezer Fitch, climbed Greylock in 1799, probably over a rough route cut by a local pioneer farmer Jeremiah Wilbur ( in that time more land had been cleared on the slopes for farming than today ).

In 1986, Shelby won the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat held by Republican Jeremiah Denton, the first Republican elected to the Senate from Alabama since Reconstruction.

It derives its name from, and records the visions of, Jeremiah, who lived in Jerusalem in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BC during the time of king Josiah and the fall of the Kingdom of Judah to the Babylonians, and who subsequently went into exile in Egypt.

According to the book, the Prophet Jeremiah was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of Benjamin, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah just prior to, during, and immediately after the siege of Jerusalem, culminating in the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the raiding of the city by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

According to Jewish and Christian traditions, authorship is assigned to the Prophet Jeremiah, who was ministering the Word of God during the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, during which the First Temple was destroyed and King Zedekiah was taken prisoner ( cf.

According to the Book of Jeremiah, Moab and Biblical Elam which were exiled during the Babylonian Exile, will be brought back from their captivity in the end of days.

* Jeremiah Denton repeatedly blinked his eyes in Morse Code during the 1966 televised press conference that he was forced into as an American POW by his North Vietnamese captors, spelling out the word, " T-O-R-T-U-R-E ".

De lamentatione, another early work, is a contribution to the Elizabethan practice of setting groups of verses from the Lamentations of Jeremiah following the format of the Tenebrae lessons sung in the Catholic rite during the last three days of Holy Week, other contributors including Tallis, White, Parsley and the elder Ferrabosco.

For example, during the reign of King Zedekiah, The Lord instructed Jeremiah to make a yoke of the message that the nation would be subject to the king of Babylon and that listening to the false prophets would bring a much worse disaster.

However, the First Book of Kings states that it was absent earlier than Jeremiah, during Solomon's reign in the tenth century B. C.

The main traditional types of church music sung during Holy Week are " Passions ", musical settings of the Gospel narratives, both a Catholic and Lutheran tradition, and settings of the readings and responses from the Catholic Tenebrae services, especially those of the Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet.

The prophets Amos and Hosea write of events during the 8th century kingdom of Israel ; the prophet Jeremiah writes of events preceding and following the fall of Judah ; Ezekiel writes of events during and preceding the exile in Babylon ; and other prophets similarly touch on various periods, usually those in which they write.

At Zürich he laboured for a period of twenty-eight years, during which, besides commentaries on The Psalms ( 1835 – 1836 ; 2nd ed., 1863 – 1865 ), The Minor Prophets ( 1838 ; 3rd ed., 1863 ), Jeremiah ( 1841 ; 2nd ed., 1866 ), Ezekiel ( 1847 ), Daniel ( 1850 ), Ecclesiastes ( 1847 ), Canticles ( 1855 ), and Proverbs ( 1858 ), he published a monograph, Über Johannes Markus und seine Schriften ( 1843 ), in which he maintained the chronological priority of the second gospel.

* Jeremiah Boyle ( 1818 – 1871 ), Union Brigadier General during the American Civil War

* The number value in Hebrew Gematria of the word ר ָ נ ּ ו ּ ( ronna ) ( meaning " sing "), which appears in Jeremiah 31: 6, " Sing with gladness for Jacob ," and was associated with a prophecy of the return of the Messiah in the Hebrew year 4856 ( 1095 – 1096 ), which was close to the 256th lunar cycle ( each cycle lasting 19 years ), when the Jews were persecuted during the First Crusade.

Jeremiah's admonition, " Go now to my place that was in Shiloh ", in the course of his temple sermon would have occurred during this era ( Jeremiah 7: 12 ).

Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-Jearim and prophesied during an unknown period against Jerusalem ( see Jeremiah 26: 20 ).

so evidence that Baruch was read in Jewish synagogues on certain festivals during the early centuries of the Christian era ( Thackeray, 107-11 )," i. e. Henry St. John Thackeray, The Septuagint and Jewish Worship, 1923 .</ ref > It is grouped with the prophetical books which also include Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the twelve minor prophets.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite, a selection from Baruch ( which is considered an extension of the Book of Jeremiah, and is announced in the services as " Jeremiah ") is read as one of the eight Paroemia ( Old Testament readings ) during the Vesperal Divine Liturgy on Christmas Eve.