Living Word Lutheran Church | Marshall, MN

Jeremiah is a prophet in the Southern Kingdom Of Judah. Now you may remember that the kingdoms have been split. Right? Israel in the North has been conquered, already by the Assyrians. And so when when Jeremiah hits the scene as a priest and a prophet, the the kingdom in the of Israel in the North had had fallen a hundred years before to the Syrian army. So Jeremiah was a prophet in Jerusalem, the Southern Kingdom Of Judah, and we can see in the first lines of chapter one,