Jeremiah 1:18
Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- 627 BC
WHEN
627 BC
dated by the text itself
WHO RULED
- Josiah king of Judah 640-609 BC
SOURCES
- date — Jeremiah 1:2 dates itself by the thirteenth year of Josiah, which is 627 BC, five years before the Temple reform.
- Josiah — 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
- Isaiah 50:7 Because the Lord GOD helps Me, I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set My face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.
- Ezekiel 3:8-9 Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. …
- Jeremiah 15:20 Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares…
- Jeremiah 6:27 “I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.
- Micah 3:8-9 As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin. …
- Jeremiah 34:20-22 I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth. …
- Jeremiah 36:27-32 After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: …
- Jeremiah 37:7 “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you, will go back…
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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