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Jeremiah

Prophet active before and during Jerusalem's fall to Babylon.

prophet of Anathoth8 Bible books47 chapters135 verse appearancesAlso known as: Jeremias, Jeremy

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Priest's son from in called from his youth to uproot and tear down, to build and to plant, who prophesies through the final decades of . He confronts kings from to , performs sign-acts with linen belts, broken jars, and a wooden yoke, and is beaten, imprisoned, and lowered into a muddy cistern for announcing 's fall. After the city is destroyed he is carried unwillingly to Egypt with the remaining Judeans, where he continues to deliver oracles of judgment and a promised new covenant.

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