Jeremiah 1:1-3

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1 These are the messages of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah. Jeremiah belonged to the family of priests who lived in the town of Anathoth.^[a] That town is in the land that belongs to the tribe of Benjamin. ² The Lord began to speak to Jeremiah in the 13th year^[b] that Josiah, son of Amon, was king of the nation of Judah. ³ He continued to speak to Jeremiah during the time that Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, was king of Judah and during the eleven years and five months that Zedekiah, also a son of Josiah, was king of Judah. In the fifth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year as king, the people who lived in Jerusalem were taken away into exile.