Discovery BoxJeremiah 1:5 
Context1:5 “Before I formed you in your mother’s womb 1 I chose you. 2
Before you were born I set you apart.
I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”
Jeremiah 16:3
Context16:3 For I, the Lord, tell you what will happen to 3 the children who are born here in this land and to the men and women who are their mothers and fathers. 4
Jeremiah 52:1
Context52:1 5 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem 6 for eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal 7 daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.
1 tn Heb “the womb.” The words “your mother’s” are implicit and are supplied in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “I knew you.” The parallelism here with “set you apart” and “appointed you” make clear that Jeremiah is speaking of his foreordination to be a prophet. For this same nuance of the Hebrew verb see Gen 18:19; Amos 3:2.
3 tn Heb “For thus says the
4 tn Heb “Thus says the
5 sn This final chapter does not mention Jeremiah, but its description of the downfall of Jerusalem and exile of the people validates the prophet’s ministry.
6 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
7 tn Some textual witnesses support the Kethib (consonantal text) in reading “Hamital.”
