«And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words, / Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there: / But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.»

«And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, / Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.»

«And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.»

«And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.»

«And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD: / Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.»

«And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.»

«And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.»

«And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains; / Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third, / Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, / Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh, / Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth, / Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.»

«And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; / Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; / Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; / Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; / Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; / Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai: / Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; / And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; / Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; / Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.»

«And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.»