The Ark is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and then numerous times in Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Psalms and Jeremiah.

In the Book of Jeremiah, it is referenced by Jeremiah, who, speaking in the days of Josiah ( Jer.

The Book of Jeremiah () is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the book of Isaiah and preceding Ezekiel and the Book of the Twelve.

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.

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

Jerome's Prologue to Jeremiah says he excluded them: " And the Book of Baruch, his scribe, which is neither read nor found among the Hebrews, we have omitted, standing ready, because of these things, for all the curses from the jealous, to whom it is necessary for me to respond through a separate short work.

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.

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

The following is a list of noteworthy sign-acts found in Jeremiah.

This is not an exhaustive list of the prophetic gestures found in the book of Jeremiah.

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 Book of Isaiah () is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, preceding Ezekiel, Jeremiah and the Book of the Twelve.

There is representation of this is in Jeremiah 32 where he ( Jeremiah ) redeems the property of his uncle Hanamel, and it speaks of the sealed scrolls kept in accordance with Leviticus 25.

The Book of Lamentations (, Eikhah, ʾēkhā ( h )) is a poetic book of the Hebrew Bible composed by the Jewish prophet Jeremiah.

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.

It is said that Jeremiah retired to a cavern outside the Damascus gate, where he wrote this book.

However, the strict acrostic style of four of the five poems is not found at all in the Book of Jeremiah itself and Jeremiah's name is not found anywhere in the book itself ( nor any other name, for that matter ), so authorship of Lamentations is disputed.

Assassinated police chief Sid Hatfield famously credited himself as a member of the Hatfield clan ( his father, Jacob, was a son of Jeremiah Hatfield and Rachel Vance ), while West Virginia Governor Henry D. Hatfield, Washington senator Brian Hatfield and singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield are actual descendants of the Hatfield family.

* Head chef Jeremiah Tower, whose first professional cooking job was at Chez Panisse, later opened the landmark Stars and is along with Waters and Wolfgang Puck credited with inventing California Cuisine.

He is credited with developing linebacker Jeremiah Trotter into a two-time Pro Bowl performer.

He has lent his voice for many popular anime characters and is sometimes credited as " Jeremiah Freedman.

Puck's former colleague, Jeremiah Tower became synonymous with California Cuisine and the overall American culinary revolution.

They are identical except that Athanasius includes the Book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah and places the Book of Esther among the " 7 books not in the canon but to be read " along with the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach ( Ecclesiasticus ), Judith, Tobit, the Didache, and the Shepherd of Hermas.

The visions of Daniel, with those of 1 Enoch, Isaiah, Jubilees, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, are the inspiration for much of the apocalyptic ideology and symbolism of the Qumran community's Dead Sea scrolls and the early literature of Christianity.

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 ...

" But the Canon of Trent included them as " Ieremias cum Baruch " ( Jeremiah with Baruch ), being the Epistle or Letter of Jeremiah in the Vulgate.

These laments that are attributed to Jeremiah “ provide a unique look at the prophet's inner struggle with faith, persecution, and human suffering ”.

These include various predictions of the downfall of the northern kingdom, the equivalent prediction of the downfall of Judah following the reign of Manasseh, the extension of Josiah's reforms in accordance with the laws of Deuteronomy, and the revision of the narrative from Jeremiah concerning Judah's last days.

* c. 630 – 587 BC, in the last decades of the kingdom of Judah ( contemporary with Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Habakkuk )

For other parallels, compare Obadiah 1: 1-8 with Jeremiah 49: 7-16.

The Eastern Orthodox books included in the Old Testament are the seven deuterocanonical books listed above, plus 3 Maccabees and 1 Esdras ( also included in the Clementine Vulgate ), while Baruch is divided from the Epistle of Jeremiah, making a total of 49 Old Testament books in contrast with the Protestant 39-book canon.

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

Jeremiah franchise with post-apocalyptic setting:

Against this some medieval Jewish polemical texts connect notzrim with the netsarim " watchmen " of Ephraim in Jeremiah 31: 6.

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.

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.

While the house was under construction, the young Mudds lived with Frankie's bachelor brother, Jeremiah Dyer, finally moving into their new home in 1859.

The Browns took the ball back and drove to the Denver 8-yard line, but the drive ended with a play that became known as The Fumble resulting more bad luck in Cleveland professional sports lore: Denver defensive back Jeremiah Castille stripped the football from Browns running back Ernest Byner and recovered the ensuing fumble as Byner was rushing in for the potential tying touchdown, securing the Broncos ' win.

Other books ; Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, 1 and 2 Maccabees are variously found in Vulgate manuscripts with texts derived from the Old Latin ; sometimes together with Latin versions of other texts found neither in the Hebrew Bible, nor in the Septuagint, 4 Esdras, the Prayer of Manasses and Laodiceans.

There are in the Chronicles also many quotations from the Book of Psalms and occasional references from the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel.

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

The Septuagint version of Jeremiah also includes the Book of Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremiah.

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The Book of Chronicles says that Jeremiah did write a lament on the death of King Josiah.

The Book of Ezekiel is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the books of Isaiah and Jeremiah and preceding the Book of the Twelve.

* His translations or recastings of Greek predecessors, including fourteen homilies on the Book of Jeremiah and the same number on the Book of Ezekiel by Origen ( translated ca.