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Jeremiah is a long and complex book written in the closing years of Judah before the exile. Longman provides clear and accessible commentary, drawing out covenant as a central theme: the people’s violation, the consequences, and the promise of a new covenant to come. He also provides solid help for understanding and applying the ancient genre of lament found in Lamentations.

The book is known by the name of the prophet whose words and actions provide its content (see commentary on 1:1–3). In both the English (based on the Greek Septuagint) and the Hebrew order of books, it occurs with the other prophetic books, after Isaiah and before Ezekiel and the Twelve. The order of the three major prophets is according to their putative historical settings. Isaiah son of Amoz was a figure of the eighth century B.C., whereas Jeremiah
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