Jeremiah 18
Jeremiah 18 is the eighteenth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter includes the fourth of the passages known as the "Confessions of Jeremiah".
Text
The original text of this chapter is written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 23 verses.Textual witnesses
Some early Biblical manuscript#Old [Testament manuscripts|manuscripts] containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis. Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 4QJera with extant verses 15–23.There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.
Parashot
The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Jeremiah 18 is a part of the Seventh prophecy in the section of Prophecies of Destruction . : open parashah; : closed parashah.Verse 2
In the New Testament, Matthew's gospel refers the words which were "spoken by Jeremiah the prophet" anticipating the use of the money paid to Judas Iscariot for his betrayal of Jesus. Whilst the text of Zechariah 11#Prophecy of [the Shepherds (11:4–17)|Zechariah 11:12-13] is a closer match to the gospel, writers such as John Calvin, Carl Friedrich Keil and Heinrich Meyer have suggested that an error on the part of the evangelist "might readily enough occur through a reminiscence of Jeremiah 18:2".Verse 6
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