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Jeremiah 1:3

JehoiakimJosiahZedekiahJerusalem

1 These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

2 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,

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.

4 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

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BSB
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.
KJV
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.
WEB
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
ASV
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.
DARBY
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.
BLB
And it came to pass in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, until the completion of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
ÅB
og siden i de dager da Jojakim, Josias' sønn, var konge i Juda, inntil enden av Judas konge Sedekias', Josias' sønns ellevte år, da Jerusalems innbyggere ble bortført i den femte måned.
OTB
Det kom også under regjeringen til Jojakim, sønn av Josjia, konge av Juda, inntil den femte måneden i det ellevte året til Sidkia, sønn av Josjia, konge av Juda, da folket i Jerusalem gikk i eksil.
B1930
og siden i de dager da Jojakim, Josias' sønn, var konge i Juda, inntil enden av Judas konge Sedekias', Josias' sønns ellevte år, da Jerusalems innbyggere blev bortført i den femte måned.

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  • Jeremiah 39:2

    And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.

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  • 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.

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  • 2 Chronicles 36:5–8

    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.

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  • 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?

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  • Jeremiah 21:1–14

    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,

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  • Jeremiah 34:1–35:19

    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities.

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  • 2 Chronicles 36:11–21

    Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.

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  • Jeremiah 26:1–24

    At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the LORD:

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