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Jeremiah
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| Jeremiah |
| Name Means |
"The Lord exalts." |
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Anathoth, a Levitical city a few miles
northeast of Jerusalem. |
| Family |
Was the son of Hilkiah the priest. |
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Prophet to the southern kingdom of Judah
in the late 7th and 6th centuries B.C. |
| Best Known As |
The "weeping prophet" whose tearful
confessions and anguish of soul sometimes called for redress against
personal enemies, giving rise to the term 'jeremiad.' Jeremiah's message of
Jerusalem's impending fall made many enemies and few friends. He was often
imprisoned. Some traditions hold that he died in Egypt, where he was taken
against his protests by the survivors of the siege of Jerusalem. Others suggest that
he was removed from Egypt to Babylon after the Babylonian invasion in 583 B.C. |
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