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The prophet Jeremiah addressed the people of Judah and Jerusalem over a forty-year period leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC. The book of Jeremiah addresses the exiles, especially those in Babylon, in the years after the catastrophe. Here we encounter Jeremiah the prophet who, from his youth to old age, delivered the word of God to the people of Israel at the most terrifying...

The introduction (1:1–3) locates Jeremiah’s call chronologically in the reign of Josiah and geographically sets him in Anathoth, Jerusalem and Judah. However, the opening speech of God (5), as we shift to Jeremiah’s first-person testimony, takes us much further back in the mind of God (before Jeremiah was born) and sets a much wider stage (the world of the nations). God’s perspective is always bigger than the immediate moment. The other comparable
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