Prophet living at the time of Divided Monarchy
Jeremiah
The son of Hilkiah, a priest from Anathoth in Benjamin, to whom Yahweh’s word came in the thirteenth year of Josiah (Jeremiah 1:1–2). God told him, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you,” and appointed him a prophet to the nations. He answered that he was only a child, but God touched his mouth and said, “I have put my words in your mouth” (Jeremiah 1:4–10).
For some forty years he warned Judah that Babylon would destroy Jerusalem, and was mocked, beaten, put in the stocks, imprisoned, and lowered into a cistern of mud (Jeremiah 20:1–2; 37:15–16; 38:6). He also spoke of hope: seventy years in Babylon, then a return, and a new covenant (Jeremiah 29:10; 31:31–34). After Jerusalem fell, he was carried against his will to Egypt with the remnant (Jeremiah 43:6–7). Tradition makes him the author of Lamentations.
Family
- Father
- Hilkiah