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Major Prophets · book 24 of 66Jeremiah
The prophet who warned Jerusalem before its fall and promised a new covenant.
How Jeremiah begins
The first verses of Jeremiah 1 in the King James Version.
- Jer 1:1
The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:
- Jer 1:2
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.
- Jer 1:3
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
- Jer 1:4
Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
- Jer 1:5
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
The 52 chapters of Jeremiah
Each chapter has its own page with the complete text.
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Jeremiah is book 24 of the 66 in the King James Bible, with 52 chapters and 1364 verses in the public-domain text.