# Jeremiah 1:17

> Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.

— Jeremiah 1:17, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- 627 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: Jeremiah 1:2 dates itself by the thirteenth year of Josiah, which is 627 BC, five years before the Temple reform.

## Who ruled

- **Josiah**, king of Judah, 640-609 BC · Source: 2 Kings 22-23; 2 Chronicles 34-35; his death at Megiddo falls in the Egyptian campaign of 609 BC, which the Babylonian Chronicles record

## See also

- 1 Kings 18:46 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-kings/18/46
- Jeremiah 1:7-8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/1/7
- Luke 12:35 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/luke/12/35
- 1 Peter 1:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-peter/1/13
- Ezekiel 3:14-18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/3/14
- Exodus 7:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/7/2
- Jeremiah 23:28 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/23/28
- Job 38:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/38/3

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/1/17
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/1
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).