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Jeremiah 1:2

The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Scofield Reference Index - Inspiration;   Thompson Chain Reference - Josiah;   The Topic Concordance - Choosing/chosen;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;   Time;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Jehoiakim;   Jeremiah;   Josiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Inspiration of Scripture;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Jeremiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amon ;   Bel;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jeremiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - God;   Jeremiah (2);   Josiah;   Self-Surrender;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The word of the Lord came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah.
Hebrew Names Version
to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Yoshiyahu the son of Amon, king of Yehudah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
King James Version
To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
English Standard Version
to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
New American Standard Bible
to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
New Century Version
The Lord spoke his word to Jeremiah during the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah.
Amplified Bible
to 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.
World English Bible
to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Geneva Bible (1587)
To whom the worde of the Lorde came in the dayes of Iosiah the sonne of Amon King of Iudah in the thirteenth yeere of his reigne:
Legacy Standard Bible
to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord first spoke to me in the thirteenth year that Josiah was king of Judah,
Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai came to him during the days of Yoshiyahu the son of Amon, king of Y'hudah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Darby Translation
to whom the word of Jehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign;
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord began to speak to Jeremiah in the 13th year that Josiah, son of Amon, was king of the nation of Judah.
George Lamsa Translation
To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Good News Translation
The Lord spoke to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah,
Lexham English Bible
to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, the king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Literal Translation
to whom the Word of Jehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
when the LORDE had first spoken with him, in the tyme of Iosias the sonne of Amon kinge of Iuda, in the xiij yeare of his kingdome:
American Standard Version
to whom the word of Jehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Bible in Basic English
To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his rule.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
King James Version (1611)
To whom the word of the Lord came in the dayes of Iosiah the sonne of Amon king of Iudah, in the thirteenth yeere of his reigne.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When the Lorde had first spoken with hym in the tyme of Iosiah the sonne of Amon kyng of Iuda, in the .xiij. yere of his raigne:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
accordingly as the word of God came to him in the days of Josias son of Amos king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
English Revised Version
to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the word of the Lord was maad to hym in the daies of Josie, the sone of Amon, kyng of Juda, in the threttenethe yeer of his rewme.
Update Bible Version
to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Webster's Bible Translation
To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
New English Translation
The Lord began to speak to him in the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon ruled over Judah.
New King James Version
to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
New Living Translation
The Lord first gave messages to Jeremiah during the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah.
New Life Bible
The Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his rule.
New Revised Standard
to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of King Josiah son of Amon of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
unto whom came the word of Yahweh, in the days of Josiah son of Amen king of Judah, - in the thirteenth year of his reign;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The word of the Lord which came to him in the days of Josias the son of Amon king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Revised Standard Version
to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josi'ah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Young's Literal Translation
unto whom the word of Jehovah hath been in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

Contextual Overview

1These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. 2The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,3and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the word: Jeremiah 1:4, Jeremiah 1:11, 1 Kings 13:20, Hosea 1:1, Jonah 1:1, Micah 1:1

in the days: 2 Kings 21:25, 2 Kings 21:26, 2 Kings 22:1 - 2 Kings 23:37, 2 Chronicles 34:1 - 2 Chronicles 35:27

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 34:8 - the eighteenth Jeremiah 16:1 - The word Jeremiah 25:3 - thirteenth Jeremiah 28:12 - General Jeremiah 30:1 - General Jeremiah 36:2 - from the day Ezekiel 1:3 - word Joel 1:1 - word Zephaniah 1:1 - in the days Matthew 1:10 - Josias Luke 3:2 - the word

Cross-References

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
Job 26:7
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
Job 26:14
Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?"
Psalms 33:6
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
Isaiah 45:18
For thus says the LORD-He who created the heavens; He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited-"I am the LORD, and there is no other.
Nahum 2:10
She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah,.... This was the beginning of the prophecy of Jeremiah, so that he prophesied long after Isaiah, Hosea, Amos, and Micah; for this king was

the son of Amon king of Judah, which Amon was the son of Manasseh; the Septuagint and Arabic versions wrongly call him Amos; and Jeremiah began to prophesy

in the thirteenth year of his reign: in the twenty first of Josiah's age, for he began to reign when he was eight years old, and he reigned eighteen years after, for he reigned in all thirty one years; and it was five years after this that the book of the law was found by Hilkiah the high priest, 2 Kings 22:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Came - literally, was (and in Jeremiah 1:4); the phrase implies that Jeremiah possessed God’s word from that time onward, not fitfully as coming and going, but constantly.

The thirteenth year of his reign - According to the ordinary reckoning, this would be 629 b.c., but if the Ptolemaic canon be right in putting the capture of Jerusalem at 586 b.c., it would be two years later, namely 627 b.c. However, according to the Assyrian chronology, it would be 608 b.c. It was the year after that in which Josiah began his reforms.


 
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