Jeremiah 1 · Verse 2

Jeremiah 1:2

To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Jeremiah 1:2, King James Version

Jeremiah 1:2 in other translations

BSBThe word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,
WEBThe LORD’s word came to him in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
ASVto whom the word of Jehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
YLTunto whom the word of Jehovah hath been in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign,
DARBYto whom the word of Jehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign;
BBETo whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his rule.
WebsterTo whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

What does Jeremiah 1:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 1:2-3
2-3. Jehoiakim ... Josiah ... Zedekiah--Jehoahaz and Jehoiachin are omitted for they reigned only three months each. The first and last of the kings under whom each prophet prophesied are often thus specified in the general title. See on these kings, and Jeremiah's life, my Introduction. thirteenth ... of his reign--(Jr 25:3). fifth month--(2Ki 25:8).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 1:1-10

Jeremiah's call to the prophetic office. (Jr 1:1-10) A vision of an almond-tree and of a seething-pot, Divine protection is promised. (Jr 1:11-19) Verses 1-10 Jeremiah's early call to the work and office of a prophet is stated. He was to be a prophet, not to the Jews only, but to the neighbouring nations. He is still a prophet to the whole world, and it would be well if they would attend to these warnings. The Lord…

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Jeremiah 1:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֲשֶׁ֨ר'a.SherwhomH834
הָיָ֤הha.Yahit cameH1961
דְבַר\־de.var-[the] word ofH1697
יְהוָה֙Yah.wehYahwehH3068
אֵלָ֔יו'e.Lavto himH413
בִּימֵ֛יbi.Meiin [the] days ofH3117
יֹאשִׁיָּ֥הוּyo.shi.Ya.huJosiahH2977
בֶן\־ven-[the] son ofH1121
אָמ֖וֹן'a.MonAmonH526
מֶ֣לֶךְMe.lekh[the] king ofH4428
יְהוּדָ֑הye.hu.DahJudahH3063
בִּשְׁלֹשׁ\־bish.losh-in thir-H7969
עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה'es.RehteenH6240
שָׁנָ֖הsha.NahyearH8141
לְמָלְכֽוֹ\׃le.ma.le.Khoof reigning hisH4427

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 1:2

  • 1 Kings 13:20

    And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the Lord came unto the prophet that brought him back:

  • Jonah 1:1

    Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

  • Jeremiah 1:11

    Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

  • Hosea 1:1

    The word of the Lord that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

  • Micah 1:1

    The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

  • Jeremiah 1:4

    Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

  • 2 Kings 21:24-22:20

    And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead. Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead. Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. …

  • Jeremiah 25:3

    From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.

  • 2 Chronicles 34:1-33

    Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left. For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. …

  • Jeremiah 36:2

    Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the word.
4,11; 1Ki 13:20; Ho 1:1; Jon 1:1; Mic 1:1
in the days.
2Ki 21:25,26; 22:1-23:37; 2Ch 34:1-35:27

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Context

  • Jeremiah 1:1

    The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

  • Jeremiah 1:2

    To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

  • Jeremiah 1:3

    It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

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Jeremiah 1:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
La palabra de Jehová que fué á él en los días de Josías hijo de Amón, rey de Judá, en el año décimotercio de su reinado.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
auquel vint la parole de l’ Éternel, dans les jours de Josias, fils d’Amon, roi de Juda, la treizième année de son règne;
German
Elberfelder 1871
zu welchem das Wort Jehovas geschah in den Tagen Josias, des Sohnes Amons, des Königs von Juda, im dreizehnten Jahre seiner Regierung;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quod factum est verbum Domini ad eum in diebus Josiæ filii Amon, regis Juda, in tertiodecimo anno regni ejus.