{"id":11559,"date":"2024-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=11559"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:42:42","slug":"jeremiah-gods-call-youthful-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/jeremiah-gods-call-youthful-prophet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoe oud was Jeremia toen God hem riep? Jong, misschien 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>The Bible does not give Jeremiah&#039;s age. When God called him, in the thirteenth year of King Josiah, about 627 BC, Jeremiah answered, &quot;I am a child&quot; (Jeremiah 1:6). The Hebrew word, na&#039;ar, covers anyone from a baby to a young man. One common estimate is about twenty, and no one can be sure. What we do have is the conversation itself, and it is one of the tenderest in the prophets. God tells the young man that he was\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible gives no number. Jeremiah said &quot;I am a child&quot; in 627 BC, and he was perhaps about twenty. What the Hebrew word means, and what God answered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-11559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-education"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3363,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/discipline-in-scripture\/","url_meta":{"origin":11559,"position":0},"title":"Discipline in the Bible: Its Meaning, Examples and Key Verses","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"mei 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"In the Bible, discipline is a loving father's training. The KJV says \"discipline\" once and \"chasten\" often. 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