The Superscription

1:1 The following is a record of what Jeremiah son of Hilkiah prophesied.1 He was one of the priests who lived at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. 1:2 The Lord2 began to speak to him3 in the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon ruled over Judah. 1:3 The Lord also spoke to him when Jehoiakim son of Josiah ruled over Judah, and he continued to speak to him until the fifth month of the eleventh year4 that Zedekiah son of Josiah ruled over Judah. That was when the people of Jerusalem5 were taken into exile.6