Jeremiah ’ s “ confessions ” are a type of individual lament.

Likewise, Jeremiah ’ s exclamation “ For I hear the whispering of many: Terror is all around !” ( Jer.

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

The name comes from Slavonic Jeremiinŭ dĭnĭ meaning prophet Jeremiah ’ s day but the celebration rites and habits of this day are apotropaic and pagan ( possibly originating in the cult of the god Pan ).

For example, in order to contrast the people ’ s disobedience with the obedience of the Rechabites, God has Jeremiah invite the Rechabites to drink wine, in disobedience to their ancestor ’ s command.

God ’ s personal prediction to Jeremiah, " Attack you they will, overcome you they can't ," was fulfilled many times in the biblical narrative as Jeremiah warned of destruction of those who continued to refuse repentance and accept more moderate consequences.

In return for his adherence to God ’ s discipline and speaking God ’ s words, Jeremiah was attacked by his own brothers, beaten and put into the stocks by a priest and false prophet, imprisoned by the king, threatened with death, thrown into a cistern by Judah ’ s officials, and opposed by a false prophet.

Rose interprets this passage by comparing it to the passage in Jeremiah 22: 24, in through which he concludes that the King is a signet ring on God ’ s hand.

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

'" God ’ s personal message to Jeremiah, “ Attack you they will, overcome you they can ’ t ,” was fulfilled many times in the Biblical narrative, Jeremiah was attacked by his own brothers, beaten and put into the stocks by a priest and false prophet, imprisoned by the king, threatened with death, thrown into a cistern by Judah ’ s officials, and opposed by a false prophet.

Jeremiah was called by Elohim to give prophesy of Jerusalem ’ s destruction that would occur by invaders from the North.

Jeremiah ’ s ministry was active from the thirteenth year of Josiah, king of Judah ( 3298 HC, or 626 BC ), until after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of Solomon ’ s Temple in ( 3358 HC, or 587 BC ).

However, the Lord insisted that Jeremiah go and speak as commanded, and he touched Jeremiah ’ s mouth and put the word of the Lord into Jeremiah ’ s mouth.

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.

Matthew's purpose is to present Jesus as the Messiah, and the Massacre of the Innocents as the fulfillment of passages in Hosea, referring to the exodus, and Jeremiah, to the Babylonian exile.

They adhered to the law laid down by Jonadab, and were noted for their fidelity to the old-established custom of their family in the days of Jeremiah ( 35 ); and this feature of their character is referred to by God for the purpose of giving point to his message to Judah.

The caves, then known as the Fish River Caves, came under New South Wales Government control in 1866, becoming only the second area in the world reserved for the purpose of conservation and the following year Jeremiah Wilson was appointed as the first " Keeper of the Caves ".

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.

The book of Jeremiah was edited and influenced by the Deuteronomists, or the writers of the book of Deuteronomy, who advanced religious reform.

However, considerable debate exists as to whether Jeremiah was actually a member of the Deuteronomistc school since he does not explicitly mention Deuteronomy or Josiah's religious reform.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

According to Jewish tradition the author of Kings was Jeremiah, whose life overlapped the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.

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.

If the superscription of the book of Zephaniah is a reliable indicator of the time that the bulk of the book was composed, then Zephaniah was a contemporary of the prophet Jeremiah ( or Jeremias ).

However, Ezekiel and his contemporaries like Jeremiah, another prophet who was living in Jerusalem at that time, witnessed the fulfillment of their prophecies when Jerusalem was finally sacked by the Babylonians in 587 BCE, an event that is confirmed by most historians.

Some statements found in rabbinic literature ( Radak – R. David Kimkhi – in his commentary on Ezekiel 1: 3, based on Targum Yerushalmi ) posits that Ezekiel was the son of Jeremiah, who was ( also ) called " Buzi " because he was despised by the Jews.

In 1999, American Heritage magazine rated Elihu Yale the " most overrated philanthropist " in American history, arguing that the college that would later bear his name ( Yale University ) was successful largely because of the generosity of a man named Jeremiah Dummer, but that the trustees of the school did not want it known by the name " Dummer College ".

Because the book of Habbakuk consists of five oracles about the Chaldeans ( Babylonians ), and the Chaldean rise to power is dated circa 612 BCE, it is assumed he was active about that time, making him an early contemporary of Jeremiah and Zephaniah.

Jeremiah ( c. 655-586 BCE ) was a Hebrew religious leader.

* " Jeremiah was a bullfrog ", in " Joy to the World " ( Hoyt Axton song )

Jeremiah was appointed to reveal the sins of the people and the coming consequences.

At the same time while Jeremiah was prophesying coming destruction because of the sins of the nation, a number of other prophets were prophesying peace.

This may link in with the prophecy of Jeremiah 36: 30, which states that Jehoiakim's children would never against on the throne of David because of his sins.

In the Jewish Deuterocanonical book Second Maccabees, Chapter 2, " one finds in the records " that Jeremiah, having received an oracle of the Lord, ordered that the tent and the ark and the altar of incense should follow him to the mountain of God where he sealed them up in a cave, and he told those who followed him in order to mark the way ( but they could not find it ) " The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy, and then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud shall appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place be specially consecrated.

2 Maccabees 2: 4-10, written around 100 BC, says that the prophet Jeremiah, " being warned by God " before the Babylonian invasion, took the Ark, the Tabernacle, and the Altar of Incense, and buried them in a cave on Mount Nebo ( Jordan ), informing those of his followers who wished to find the place that it should remain unknown " until the time that God should gather His people again together, and receive them unto mercy.

According to the book, for a quarter century prior to the destruction, Jeremiah repeatedly issued prophecies predicting God's forthcoming judgment ; advocating the Israelites to put down their idols and repent in hopes of turning away God's judgment and fulfilling their destiny as His chosen people.

Jeremiah alternates efforts to warn the people with pleas to God for mercy until he is ordered to " pray no more for this people.

Jeremiah speaks of his ( and God's ) displeasure at this behavior to the Hebrew people about the worship of the goddess in the Old Testament.

The name of the Philistines in their own language is not known ; however, the Bible also relates them as the people of " Kaftor " ( כפתור in Hebrew, see for example the Book of Jeremiah Chapter 47, Verse 4 ).

Jeremiah likewise speaks of people from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria who brought offerings of frankioncense and grain to the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah couples it with Bashan and Lebanon as locations from which the people cry in vain to God for rescue ( Jeremiah 22: 20 ).

He took the yoke off of Jeremiah ’ s neck, broke it, and prophesied to the priests and all the people that within two years the Lord would break the yoke of the king of Babylon, but the lord spoke to Jeremiah saying " Go and speak to Hananiah saying, you have broken the yoke of wood, but you have made instead a yoke of iron.

After Jeremiah prophesied that Jerusalem would be handed over to the Babylonian army, the king ’ s officials, including Pashur the priest, tried to convince King Zedekiah that Jeremiah should be put to death because he was discouraging the soldiers as well as the people.

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.

In order to contrast the people ’ s disobedience with the obedience of the Rechabites, the Lord has Jeremiah invite the Rechabites to drink wine, in disobedience to their ancestor ’ s command.

18, in which " a prophet like Moses " is promised: " As Moses was a prophet for forty years, so was Jeremiah ; as Moses prophesied concerning Judah and Benjamin, so did Jeremiah ; as Moses ' own tribe Levites under Korah rose up against him, so did Jeremiah's tribe revolt against him ; Moses was cast into the water, Jeremiah into a pit ; as Moses was saved by a slave ( the slave of Pharaoh's daughter ); so, Jeremiah was rescued by a slave ( Ebed-melech ); Moses reprimanded the people in discourses ; so did Jeremiah.