Jeremiah was born half a century before Christ in the village of Anathoth, not far from Jerusalem. He began to prophesy at an early age in the time of King Josiah. One of his prophecies was repentance to the king and the nobles and the false prophets and priests. In the time of King Josiah, Jeremiah barely saved his life from the murderous hand of the nobles. He prophesied to King Joachim that his funeral would be like a donkey’s funeral. They will throw the king out of Jerusalem died, and his body will be dragged across the land without burial for a long time. That prophesy secured his time in prison. He was unable to write in the dungeon.

He dictated to Baruch through the dungeon window. The providence of God saved Jeremiah from prison, and the prophecy was fulfilled in Joachim. He prophesied to King Jehoniah that he would be taken to Babylon with his whole family and that the king would die there, which shortly happened. Under King Zedekiah, Jeremiah put a yoke on his neck and walked through Jerusalem, prophesying the fall of Jerusalem and slavery in the yoke of the Babylonians. He wrote to the Jewish slaves in Babylon, not to hope to return to Jerusalem because they would stay in Babylon for seventy years, which is what happened. In the valley of Toteph, the Jews sacrificed children to idols.

Jeremiah was prophesying the imminent destruction of the kingdom of Judah. Soon the Babylonians captured Jerusalem, killed King Zedekiah, plundered and destroyed the city, and slaughtered Jews in the Totef Valley, where they sacrificed children to idols. Jeremiah and the Levites took the ark from the temple and took it to Mount Naboth, where Moses died, and hid it in a cave. He was forced by some Jews to go with them to Egypt. Jeremiah lived for four years, and then he was stoned to death by his compatriots. He prophesied to the Egyptians the crushing of their idols and the arrival in Egypt of the Virgin with the Infant.