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Jeremiah was called to be a prophet c. 627 b.c., when he was young (1:6). He served for more than 40 years (1:2-3). Jeremiah had a difficult life. His messages of repentance delivered at the temple were not well received (7:1-8:3; 26:1-11). His hometown plotted against him (11:18-23), and he endured much persecution (20:1-6; 37:11-38:13; 43:1-7). At God's command, he never married (16:1-4). Although he preached God's word faithfully, he apparently had only two converts: Baruch, his scribe (32:12; 36:1-4; 45:1-5); and Ebed-melech, an Ethiopian eunuch who served the king (38:7-13; 39:15-18). Though the book does not reveal the time or place of Jeremiah's death, he probably died in Egypt, where he had been taken by his countrymen against his will after the fall of Jerusalem (43:1-7). He most likely did not live to see the devastation he mentions in chs. 46-51.
Jeremiah and Baruch left a record of the difficult times in which they lived, God's message for those times, and God's message for the future of Israel and the nations.
The book of Jeremiah is set during the politically tumultuous times following the fall of the Assyrians and the rise of the Babylonians. During Jeremiah's life, several groups of Judeans were deported to Babylon and the temple was destroyed. Though the precise boundaries of Judea and the surrounding regions during this period are difficult to determine, they likely resembled those that previously existed under Assyrian rule, with the exception that Edom (Idumea) was now the area formerly belonging to southern Judah.
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