Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Word of the Lord came to me - probably in the 13th year of the reign of Josiah (Jeremiah 1:2; cf. Jeremiah 3:6: cf. with Jeremiah 2:20). The warning not to rely as they did on Egypt (Jeremiah 2:18) was in accordance with Josiah's policy, who took part with Assyria and Babylon against Egypt and Pharaoh-nechoh (2 Kings 23:29). Jeremiah, doubtless, supported the reformation began by Josiah in the previous year (the 12th year of his reign), and fully carried out in the eighteenth.