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Jeremiah 1:1

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, [one] of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anathoth;   Excuses;   Hilkiah;   Jeremiah;   Prophets;   Scofield Reference Index - Inspiration;   Jeremiah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Anathoth;   Jeremiah;   The Topic Concordance - Choosing/chosen;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Anathoth;   Hilkiah;   Jeremiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Jehoiakim;   Jeremiah;   Josiah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Anathoth;   Hilkiah;   Jeremiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Anathoth;   Hilkiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Anathoth;   Hilkiah;   Jeremiah;   Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Anathoth;   Hilkiah;   Isaiah, Book of;   Jeremiah;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Anathoth ;   Hilkiah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hilkiah;   Netophah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Anathoth;   Jeremiah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Hilki'ah;   Jeremi'ah;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Ashes;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Anathoth;   Ezekiel;   Hilkiah;   Jeremiah (2);   Levitical Cities;   Self-Surrender;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Anathoth;   Babylonia;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anathoth;   Asenath;   Hafá¹­arah;   Hilkiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests living in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
Hebrew Names Version
The words of Yirmeyahu the son of Hilkiyah, of the Kohanim who were in `Anatot in the land of Binyamin:
King James Version
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
English Standard Version
The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
New American Standard Bible
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
New Century Version
These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah. He belonged to the family of priests who lived in the town of Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.
World English Bible
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
Geneva Bible (1587)
The wordes of Ieremiah the sonne of Hilkiah one of the Priests that were at Anathoth in the lande of Beniamin.
Legacy Standard Bible
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
Berean Standard Bible
These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
Contemporary English Version
My name is Jeremiah. I am a priest, and my father Hilkiah and everyone else in my family are from Anathoth in the territory of the Benjamin tribe. This book contains the things that the Lord told me to say.
Complete Jewish Bible
These are the words of Yirmeyahu the son of Hilkiyahu, one of the cohanim living in ‘Anatot, in the territory of Binyamin.
Darby Translation
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkijah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
Easy-to-Read Version
These are the messages of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah. Jeremiah belonged to the family of priests who lived in the town of Anathoth. That town is in the land that belongs to the tribe of Benjamin.
George Lamsa Translation
THE words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
Good News Translation
This book is the account of what was said by Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests of the town of Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
Lexham English Bible
The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, among the priests who were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin,
Literal Translation
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who resided in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These are the Sermons of Ieremy the sonne of Helchia the prest, one of them that dwelt at Anathot in the londe of Ben Iamin:
American Standard Version
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
Bible in Basic English
The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
King James Version (1611)
The wordes of Ieremiah the sonne of Hilkiah, of the Priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Beniamin:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
These are the sermons of Ieremie the sonne of Helkiah the priest, one of them that dwelt at Anathoth in the lande of Beniamin,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The word of God which came to Jeremias the son of Chelcias, of the priests, who dwelt in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
English Revised Version
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The wordis of Jeremye, sone of Helchie, of the preestis that weren in Anathot, in the lond of Beniamyn.
Update Bible Version
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
Webster's Bible Translation
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that [were] in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
New English Translation
The following is a record of what Jeremiah son of Hilkiah prophesied. He was one of the priests who lived at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin.
New King James Version
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
New Living Translation
These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests from the town of Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.
New Life Bible
These are the words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the religious leaders at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.
New Revised Standard
The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, - of the priests who were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin:
Douay-Rheims Bible
The words of Jeremias the son of Helcias, of the priests that were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin.
Revised Standard Version
The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilki'ah, of the priests who were in An'athoth in the land of Benjamin,
Young's Literal Translation
Words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, of the priests who [are] in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin,
THE MESSAGE
The Message of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah of the family of priests who lived in Anathoth in the country of Benjamin. God 's Message began to come to him during the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amos reigned over Judah. It continued to come to him during the time Jehoiakim son of Josiah reigned over Judah. And it continued to come to him clear down to the fifth month of the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah over Judah, the year that Jerusalem was taken into exile. This is what God said:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,

Contextual Overview

1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, [one] of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,2to whom the word of the LORD came during the thirteenth year (627 B.C.) of the reign of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah. 3It came [to Jeremiah] also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, [continuing] until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, [and continuing] until the exile of [the people of] Jerusalem in the fifth month (July-August, 586 B.C.).

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

words: 2 Chronicles 36:21, Isaiah 1:1, Isaiah 2:1, Amos 1:1, Amos 7:10

of the priests: Ezekiel 1:3

in Anathoth: Jeremiah 11:21, Jeremiah 32:7-9, Joshua 21:17, Joshua 21:18, 1 Chronicles 6:60

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:26 - Anathoth Ezra 2:23 - Anathoth Nehemiah 7:27 - Anathoth Nehemiah 11:32 - Anathoth Isaiah 10:30 - Anathoth Jeremiah 30:1 - General Jeremiah 37:12 - the land

Cross-References

Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good (pleasing, useful) and He affirmed and sustained it; and God separated the light [distinguishing it] from the darkness.
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Genesis 1:11
So God said, "Let the earth sprout [tender] vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit according to (limited to, consistent with) their kind, whose seed is in them upon the earth"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
The earth sprouted and abundantly produced vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, according to their kind; and God saw that it was good and He affirmed and sustained it.
Genesis 1:16
God made the two great lights—the greater light (the sun) to rule the day, and the lesser light (the moon) to rule the night; He made the [galaxies of] stars also [that is, all the amazing wonders in the heavens].
Genesis 1:17
God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to provide light upon the earth,
Genesis 1:19
And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
Genesis 1:20
Then God said, "Let the waters swarm and abundantly produce living creatures, and let birds soar above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens."
Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
Genesis 1:30
and to all the animals on the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that moves on the ground—to everything in which there is the breath of life—I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so [because He commanded it].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah,.... This is the general title of the whole book, and includes all his discourses, sermons, and prophecies; and designs not his own words, but the words of the Lord, which were put into his mouth, and he delivered under divine inspiration. The Septuagint version renders it, "the word of God": and the Arabic version, "the word of the Lord": the Targum,

"the words of the prophecy of Jeremiah;''

who is described by his descent and parentage, "the son of Hilkiah". The Arabic version calls him Selkiah. This was not Hilkiah the high priest, who in the days of Josiah found the book of the law,

2 Kings 22:8 as Kimchi's father and Abarbinel think, and so Clemens of Alexandria n; since he is not said to be a high priest, or of the high priests, but

of the priests that were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin; though the Targum paraphrases the words to the other sense,

"of the heads of the ward of priests, of the amarcalin, or governors which were in Jerusalem, a man that took his inheritance in Anathoth, in the land of the tribe of Benjamin;''

nor is Jeremiah mentioned among the posterity of Hilkiah the high priest in 1 Chronicles 6:13, besides, Hilkiah, a priest of Anathoth, must be of the family of Ithamar; the last of which family that was high priest was Abiathar, who had fields in Anathoth, 1 Kings 2:26, and so could be no other than a common priest; for Hilkiah the high priest was of the family of Phinehas; for, from the times of that Abiathar to the Babylonish captivity, there was no high priest but of that family. The Jews say that Jeremiah descended by his mother's side from Rahab the harlot o. Anathoth was a city in the tribe of Benjamin, as is here said, and belonged to the priests, Joshua 21:18, it lay north of Jerusalem about three miles from it, according to Jerom p and others; but, according to Josephus q, it was but twenty furlongs from it, that is, two and a half miles.

n Stromat. l. 1. p. 328. o T. Bab. Megilia, fol. 14. 2. Yalkut Simeoni, par. 2. fol. 59. 3. Jarchi in loc. p Comment. in Hieremiam, I. 1. fol. 121. H. tom. 5. & I. 2. fol. 135. F. & I. 6. fol. 161. C. Isidor. Hispalens. de Vit. & Mort. Sanct. c. 38. q Antiqu. I. 10. c. 7. sect. 3. Ed. Hudson.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The words of Jeremiah - The usual title of the prophetic books is “the Word of the Lord,” but the two books of Amos and Jeremiah are called the words of those prophets, probably because they contain not merely the words of those prophets, probably because they contain not merely prophecies, but also the record of much which belongs to the personal history of the writers. This title might therefore be translated the “life of Jeremiah” or “acts of Jeremiah,” though some understand by it a collection of the prophecies of Jeremiah. One derivation of Jeremiah’s name is “God exalteth.”

Hilkiah, may have been the high priest of that name.

That were - Or, who was, i. e., dwelt. The meaning is, that Jeremiah was a priest who dwelt at Anathoth.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH

Chronological notes relative to the commencement of Jeremiah's prophesying

-Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3375.

-Year from the Deluge, according to the generally received Hebrew text, conferred withActs 7:4, 1719.

-Fourth year of the thirty-seventh Olympiad.

-Year from the building of Rome according to the Varronian account, 125.

-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 629.

-Twelfth year of Ancus Martius, the fourth king of the Romans: this was the one hundred and twentieth year before the expulsion of the Tarquins.

-Nineteenth year of Phraortes, the second king of Media.

-Twenty-third year of Archidamus, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Proclidae.

-Sixteenth year of Eurycrates II., king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Eurysthenidae.

-Third year of Sadyattes, king of Lydia, which was the eighty-second year before the conquest of this kingdom by Cyrus.

-Twelfth year of Philip, the sixth king of Macedon, or the two hundred and ninety-third before the commencement of the reign of Alexander the Great.

-Thirteenth year of Josiah, king of Judah.

-Epoch of the building of Cyrene by Battus, according to some chronologers.

CHAPTER I

General title to the whole Book, 1-3.

Jeremiah receives a commission to prophesy concerning nations

and kingdoms, a work to which in the Divine purpose he had been

appointed before his birth, 4-10.

The vision of the rod of an almond tree and of the seething

pot, with their signification, 11-16.

Promises of Divine protection to Jeremiah in the discharge of

the arduous duties of his prophetical office, 17-19.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse. Jeremiah 1:1-3. The words of Jeremiah — These three verses are the title of the Book; and were probably added by Ezra when he collected and arranged the sacred books, and put them in that order in which they are found in Hebrew Bibles in general. For particulars relative to this prophet, the times of his prophesying, and the arrangement of his discourses, see the introduction.

Eleventh year of Zedekiah — That is, the last year of his reign; for he was made prisoner by the Chaldeans in the fourth month of that year, and the carrying away of the inhabitants of Jerusalem was in the fifth month of the same year.


 
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