Jeremiah

Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth; called in the thirteenth year of Josiah: 'Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee'; he said, 'I am a child', and the LORD touched his mouth. He went down to the potter's house; the word was 'as a fire shut up in my bones'; he spoke for twenty and three years and they would not hearken. He told the seventy years in Babylon, and wrote to the captives, 'I know the thoughts that I think toward you… thoughts of peace'. Baruch wrote his words in a roll, and king Jehoiakim cut it with the penknife and cast it into the fire. In the siege he bought his cousin's field in Anathoth for seventeen shekels: 'Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land'. He spoke of a new covenant. The princes let him down into the dungeon, and he sunk in the mire; Ebed-melech the Ethiopian drew him up with old cast clouts and ropes. When Jerusalem fell he was loosed from his chains, and at the last he was carried into Egypt.

Confirmed by history: Called in the thirteenth year of Josiah (Jer 1:2), c. 627 BC; he saw Jerusalem fall to Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC, a siege the Babylonian Chronicles record, and was carried into Egypt after it.