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• HamutalPeople

  Hamutal was the wife of King Josiah of Judah and the mother of Kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah. She is identified as the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, and her name appears in the Bible only in the accession records of her two sons.

• Kim Chi-sunPeople

  Kim Chi-sun (1899–1968) was a Korean Presbyterian minister and Old Testament scholar. Shortly after Korea's liberation in 1945, as senior pastor of Namdaemun Church in Seoul, he led the Three Million Revival Movement. He also founded Daehan Theological Seminary (now Anyang University). He is known as "the Jeremiah of Korea."

• Letter of JeremiahBible

  The Letter of Jeremiah is a short work presented as a letter from Jeremiah to the Judean captives being carried off to Babylon, warning them against idolatry. The Catholic and Orthodox churches include it in the Bible, while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha.

• JeremiahBible

  Jeremiah is one of the Major Prophets of the Old Testament. It records the prophecies and life of the prophet Jeremiah, who ministered during the period when the Kingdom of Judah fell.

• Jeremiah 16Bible

  Jeremiah 16 is the chapter in which God forbids Jeremiah to marry or to enter houses of mourning and feasting, making his life a sign of the judgment coming on Judah. The chapter also promises both a day of return from exile and a day when the nations will turn to the LORD.

• Jeremiah 20Bible

  Jeremiah 20 recounts how Pashur, the official in charge of the temple, struck Jeremiah and put him in the stocks. It also records the complaint and confession of trust that Jeremiah poured out to God amid his suffering, followed by his lament cursing the day of his birth.

• Jeremiah 19Bible

  Jeremiah 19 is the chapter in which Jeremiah buys a potter's earthen bottle and breaks it in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, proclaiming that Jerusalem will be destroyed beyond repair because of its idolatry and child sacrifice.

• Jeremiah 21Bible

  A chapter set during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, in which King Zedekiah asks Jeremiah to entreat the LORD for deliverance and Jeremiah instead announces the city's fall, declaring that those who surrender will live.

• Jeremiah 29Bible

  Jeremiah 29 contains the letter Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the exiles in Babylon. It urges them to build houses in exile and to pray for the peace of the city, promises their return after seventy years, and rebukes the false prophets.

• Jeremiah 35Bible

  Jeremiah 35 recounts how, in the days of King Jehoiakim, Jeremiah offered wine to the Rechabites, who refused it in obedience to the command of their ancestor Jonadab. Their faithfulness becomes the basis for rebuking Judah for not listening to the word of God.

• Jeremiah 39Bible

  Jeremiah 39 records the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonian army, the capture of King Zedekiah, the release of Jeremiah, and the promise of deliverance given to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian.

• Jeremiah 45Bible

  Jeremiah 45 is a brief oracle addressed to Baruch, who was writing down Jeremiah's words in the fourth year of Jehoiakim. Responding to Baruch's lament, God tells him not to seek great things for himself and promises to preserve his life wherever he goes.

• Jeremiah 42Bible

  Jeremiah 42 is the chapter in which the people left in Judah after the assassination of Gedaliah ask Jeremiah to seek the LORD's direction for them. God promises to protect them if they remain in the land of Judah, and He warns that if they go to Egypt, they will die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

• LamentationsBible

  Lamentations is a book of the Old Testament that collects five laments, poems of grief mourning the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Babylonians.

• Jeremiah 1:5Bible Verses

  A verse from the call narrative of Jeremiah in which God declares that He knew Jeremiah before forming him in the womb, sanctified him before he came forth, and ordained him a prophet to the nations. It is a representative verse on vocation and divine foreknowledge and is also cited in discussions of predestination and bioethics.

• Jeremiah 29:4–14Bible Verses

  Part of Jeremiah's letter to the exiles in Babylon, containing the exhortation to settle in the land of exile and seek the peace of the city, together with the promise of return after seventy years. Verse 11 is widely quoted as a verse of encouragement, though some caution that it must be read in its context.

• Jeremiah 31:31–33Bible Verses

  God's promise to make a new covenant with Israel and Judah and to write his law on their hearts. It is the principal Old Testament passage in which the phrase "new covenant" appears. The New Testament presents this promise as fulfilled in Christ, and the passage stands at the center of debates among theological systems over the relationship between the church and Israel.

• Jeremiah 31:34Bible Verses

  Jeremiah 31:34 is the final verse of the new covenant prophecy (Jeremiah 31:31-34). It promises that all the people will know the LORD and that their sins will be forgiven and remembered no more. Because the Epistle to the Hebrews quotes it, the verse is frequently cited in discussions of the forgiveness of sins and the new covenant, and it also figures in debates over baptism.

• Jeremiah 6:16Bible Verses

  A verse in which God tells the people of Judah to stand at the crossroads, ask for "the old paths, where is the good way," and walk in it, promising that they will find rest; the people, however, refuse. It is frequently cited in appeals to "return to the old paths."