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The Old Testament prophets played a crucial role in the history of Israel. Although there were many prophets who brought the message of God to his people, we have records of only a few. Of these, our knowledge of Jeremiah is probably the most complete. In this commentary, J.A. Thompson examines the book of Jeremiah with its message urging the people of Israel to be true to their covenant Lord and...

thirteenth year of Josiah (1:6), i.e., 627 B.C. when he was a mere lad of 16 to 18 years of age, his birth may be set toward the end of the reign of the notorious Manasseh (687–642 B.C.). He would have known nothing at first hand about Manasseh, of whom the writer of 2 Kings said that “he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel” (2 K. 21:2). In many ways Manasseh, the grandfather of Josiah,
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