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1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

Jeremiah 1:1

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 1-3)

We have here as much as it was thought fit we should know of the genealogy of this prophet and the chronology of this prophecy. 1. We are told what family the prophet was of. He was the son of Hilkiah , not that Hilkiah, it is supposed, who was high priest in Josiah’s time (for then he would have been called so, and not, as here, one of the priests that were in Anathoth ), but another of the same ...

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