The Bible does not give Jeremiah’s age. When God called him, in the thirteenth year of King Josiah, about 627 BC, Jeremiah answered, “I am a child” (Jeremiah 1:6). The Hebrew word, na’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…

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