Jeremiah

A⁹nd Pharaoh, the “Lame” (i.e. Necho II) killed him, and Jehoahaz his son reigned after him. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when [he began] to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Hamtál, the daughter of Jeremiah from Lebhná. And he did what was evil before the Lord, even as Manasseh had done.

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Z¹edekiah was twenty years old when [he began] to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Hamtal, the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah. And he did that which was evil before the Lord, even as did Jehoiakim, and the wrath of the Lord was (i.e. fell upon) Jerusalem.

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T⁷hese are the three Passovers which the children of Israel kept; the first was [kept] in Egypt in the days of Moses; the the second was [kept] in the reign of Josiah; the third was [kept] when they went up from the land of Babel. And now an end hath been made to the Passover for them for ever. From the first captivity of Jerusalem, that in which Daniel went down into captivity, to the reign of Cyrus the Persian, was seventy years according to the prophecy of Jeremiah.

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I² was with Daniel in the den [of lions], and I was with Jonah in the belly of the great fish, and I was with Joseph in the pit, and I was with Jeremiah in the well [fed from] the lake. I stand under the deepest deep so that the mountains may not sink down under the waters; and I am under the waters so that they may not sink down upon the fire, and sulphur; I stand under the fire and sulphur so that they may not sink down upon the winds and the rust.

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T⁸his is the meaning of this prophecy. Thus David the Prophet prophesied and said, " God shall come in visible form, and our God will not keep silence." Thus Jeremiah prophesied and said, " God shall come down upon the earth, and shall walk about with men like us." Thus Ezekiel the Prophet prophesied and said, " I your God will come, and I will walk about among them, and they shall know Me that I am their God." Thus David prophesied and said, " Blessed is He Who cometh in the name of God: we have blessed you in the Name of the Lord." Thus Habakkuk prophesied and said, " God shall come from the South, and the Holy One from Mount Faran and from the cities of Judah."

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S³hall then the man of my peace (i.e., my friend), whom I trusted, who ate my food, lift up his foot against me? " Thus Isaiah the Prophet prophesied and said, " Woe be unto the man of iniquity who bringeth wrath." And again he said, " Let them remove the sinner so that he may not see the glory of God." Thus David the Prophet prophesied and said, " The sinner speaketh what will condemn him, and there is no fear of God before his eyes." Thus Solomon his son prophesied and said, " The man of iniquity bringeth tumult to the city; and he willingly maketh to come destruction, and beating, and calamity which cannot be healed, for he rejoiceth in everything which God hateth." Thus prophesied Moses the Prophet and said, " God wisheth not to forgive him but rather to increase vengeance upon him; and He will make punishments to rest upon him, and the curse which is written in this book shall come upon him; and his name shall be blotted out from under heaven." Thus David the Prophet prophesied and said, " His heart is ready for slaughter; he preferreth cursing and it shall come to him; he refuseth blessing and it shall be far from him." Thus Jeremiah the Prophet prophesied concerning him and said, " The man of iniquity shall be destroyed because of the love of money, and he looketh upon darkness because of his fraud." Thus Job prophesied and said concerning him, " His Creator will destroy his fair work, and his root shall dry up under him, and his flower shall be beaten down upon him, and his memorial shall be blotted out from the earth, and his name shall be cast far away, and men shall remove him into the darkness so that he may not see the light, and the house of the man of iniquity shall be blotted out."

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T³hus prophesied Isaiah the Prophet and said, " He hath taken our disease and carried our sickness, and by His wound we are healed; and we saw Him suffering, and wounded in his pain; and He opened not His mouth in His pain, and He came to be slaughtered; like a lamb before his shearer He opened not His mouth in His suffering until they took away His life; and they knew not His birth; through the sin of My people have I come even unto death." Thus Jeremiah the Prophet prophesied and said, " And they took the price of the honourable one thirty [pieces of] silver, whom they had honoured among the children of Israel.

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