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Jeremiah
   Name Means "The Lord exalts."
   Home Anathoth, a Levitical city a few miles northeast of Jerusalem.
   Family Was the son of Hilkiah the priest.
   Occupation 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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