Jeremiah 1:1-3

New American Standard Bible 1995

Jeremiah’s Call and Commission

1 The words of ^(A)Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in ^(B)Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, ² to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of ^(C)Josiah the son of ^(D)Amon, king of Judah, in the ^(E)thirteenth year of his reign. ³ It came also in the days of ^(F)Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of ^(G)Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month.