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Jeremiah 1:3
and through the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The text functions as a chronological bookend for Jeremiah’s prophetic ministry, dating from the thirteenth year of Josiah through the reigns of Jehoiakim and Zedekiah, and concluding with the exile of Jerusalem’s population.
The words — עַד־ ('ad-) = until [H5704]; יְהוֹיָקִ֤ים (ye.ho.ya.Kim) = Jehoiakim [H3079]. The passage uses 'ad- to establish the temporal limit of the recorded prophecy and lists the royal succession from Josiah through Jehoiakim to Zedekiah without editorial commentary.
The thread — The listed kings and their reigns are cross-referenced in 2 Kings 23:34 and 2 Chronicles 36:5, while the exile timeframe corresponds to the siege narrative in Jeremiah 39:2.
Why it lands — The verse requires the reader to observe that the prophetic word remains active across multiple royal failures and national collapse, demanding attention to how divine declaration persists through shifting earthly authority.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 23:34 Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died.
- 2 Chronicles 36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.
- Jeremiah 39:2 And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.
- Zechariah 7:5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
- 2 Kings 24:1 During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
- 2 Kings 24:17 Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.
- 1 Chronicles 3:15 The sons of Josiah: Johanan was the firstborn, Jehoiakim the second, Zedekiah the third, and Shallum the fourth.
- 2 Chronicles 36:11 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.
- Jeremiah 21:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,
- Jeremiah 25:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.