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[12] Verses 14-16 announce in poetry the sending of an unnamed messenger among the nations (including Edom). O'Connor argues that "by implication, Jeremiah is the messenger", although Obadiah 1:1 has very similar wording attributed to the prophet Obadiah: Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord,
Elam is the ancestor of a family that returned with Ezra in Ezra 8:7 . Elam is the father of Jehiel and the grandfather of Shecaniah in Ezra 10:2. Elam is one of the men who joins Nehemiah in sealing the new covenant in Nehemiah 10:14. Elam is a priest who helps in the rededication of the rebuilt walls of Jerusalem in Nehemiah 12:42.
Additionally, in several of these "confessions", Jeremiah prays that the Lord will take revenge on his persecutors (for example, Jeremiah 12:3 [27]). [28] Jeremiah's "confessions" are a type of individual lament. Such laments are found elsewhere in the psalms and the Book of Job. Like Job, Jeremiah curses the day of his birth (Jeremiah 20:14 ...
Jeremiah by Enrico Glicenstein. Jeremiah was known as a prophet from the thirteenth year of Josiah, king of Judah (626 BC), [9] until after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of Solomon's Temple in 587 BC. [10] This period spanned the reigns of five kings of Judah: Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah. [9]
The books of the New Testament frequently cite Jewish scripture to support the claim of the Early Christians that Jesus was the promised Jewish Messiah.Scholars have observed that few of these citations are actual predictions in context; the majority of these quotations and references are taken from the prophetic Book of Isaiah, but they range over the entire corpus of Jewish writings.
The prophet Jeremiah lamenting the fall of Jerusalem, engraving by Gustave Doré, 1866. A jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in verse, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a prophecy of society's imminent downfall.
Jeremiah 51 is the fifty-first chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter contains the last of a series of "oracles against foreign nations" which commences in chapter 46. [1]