Jeremiah 1:1-2

Contemporary English Version

1 My name is Jeremiah. I am a priest, and my father Hilkiah and everyone else in my family are from Anathoth in the territory of the Benjamin tribe. This book contains the things that the Lord told me to say. ^2 (A) The Lord first spoke to me in the thirteenth year that Josiah^[a] was king of Judah,