A prophet nobody listened to, grieving a city he couldn't save — and a new covenant on the far side.
The superscription dates Jeremiah's ministry from Josiah's thirteenth year (627 BC) through the fall of Jerusalem (586 BC). God calls the young prophet with an extraordinary prenatal commissioning, overriding his protest of youth. Two visions—an almond branch (shaqed/shoqed wordplay) and a boiling pot tilting from the north—establish the dual themes of divine watchfulness and coming judgment.
Jeremiah ben Hilkiah was a Levitical priest from Anathoth in Benjamin, called during Josiah's reforms. His ministry spanned the reigns of Josiah, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah—the final tumultuous decades of the Judahite monarchy before the Babylonian exile.
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