Moreover, the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute there.

The word which came to JEREMIAH from The LORD, when king Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,

The LORD showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before The LORD's temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

1. The word that came to JEREMIAH concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (the same was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),

2. which JEREMIAH the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:

3. From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, The LORD's word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from The LORD:

That same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in The LORD's house, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

The word that came to JEREMIAH from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

The word which came to JEREMIAH from The LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, with all his army, all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying: