Yirmiyahu prophesied in Year 3298, the 12th year of King Josiah, forty years before the Destruction [(and in Shir HaShirim Deuteronomy chapter 72 from year 12 of Josiah until the Destruction was 54 years, six months, and ten days, and there in chapter 19 b it writes that he prophesied for forty years and began to prophesy when he was a youth)] until year one of Cyrus [(end of Divrei HaYamim and beginning of Ezra)], and that was 62 years. And at that time were Zephaniah and Uriah the prophets, and Chilkiah was the High Priest, and after him Azariah.

And they received from Yoel, and at that time the tradition was the 13th to the prophets, and so concludes (Abarbanel). And he omitted three traditions - Nachum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah - and included them in the tradition of Yoel and Yirmiyahu even though there are between the two traditions of Yoel and Yirmiyahu about 100 years, which in my eyes is a little distant for the tradition to stand without a receiver for all that long time.

But according to Yuchsin in Seder HaDorot, Yirmiyahu received from Zephaniah [(close to Year 3316, and so writes the Rambam)], and he is the 20th receiver according to our conclusion, and the 16th to the prophets [(Tzeda LaDerech)].

Yirmiyahu was a Kohen [(Tosafot Bava Kamma 16b). And I heard that Eicha has the acrostic: Ani Yirmiyahu Kohen HaDa'a'tot (I am Yirmiyahu Kohen the knowledgeable). It is written in Shemen HaTov end of Pekudei that Yirmiyahu was from the descendants of Itamar son of Aharon, as we see that he was from the Kohanim who were in Anatot, and the Bamah was of the sons of Itamar as stated in Avithar Anatot and so forth.

Itamar plus 10 equals 12 in gematria, like Yirmiyahu and so forth]. Our Sages said that Yirmiyahu cursed the day of his birth, which was Tisha B'Av, but did not curse the man who announced to his father "a son is born to you," for it was known to him that the announcer was Pashchur son of Immer (see Radak Yirmiyahu 20). He reincarnated in Chuldah (Sefer Kavvanot see Year 3284). King Shlomo reincarnated in Yirmiyahu, and Esav made him like a madman and fool and he was thrown into the pit of dogs (Bereishit).

The spark of Moshe was in Yirmiyahu and Shlomo (Kaf Chet 800), and he rebuked Israel for forty years like Moshe, and did five lamentations like Moshe's five books (Yalkut Remez 1419) for he was his spark (Megaleh Amukot chapter 4). The pit into which they threw him was near Givat Binyamin].

It is written in Shir HaShirim chapter 69: They say that after the Israelites who remained from Nebuchadnezzar's exile in Jerusalem brought him to Egypt against his will, and he was rebuking them in Egypt, they rose up against him and stoned him, and he was buried in Egypt. And because the Egyptians were afflicted by locusts in house and field, they besought Yirmiyahu to pray to HaShem, and so he did, and the locusts went away.

Therefore after his death they called him a god and sacrificed to him [(see Year 3319)].

Uriah son of Shemaiah [In Yirmiyahu chapter 26: "And there was also a man prophesying in the name of HaShem, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiryat Yearim," who was a Kohen, and they despised him because he came from a lowly family (see end of Makkot in the name of the Rabad and in Yerushalmi chapter 1 of Pinchas)].

Ben Sira was the son of Yirmiyahu [(Shir HaShirim). And in Berachot 46b and elsewhere he was a spark of Yirmiyahu (see Year 3448). And in the writings of Maharil that he was the son of Yirmiyahu and his mother was the daughter of Yirmiyahu who became pregnant through a bath. And in Chelek (100b) it is forbidden to study his book, and Rav Yosef expounded "words of excellence exist in it." And in Chaviva chapter 2 and in Sefer Ben Sira, and in the introduction of the Ramban to the Torah regarding "from that which is hidden from you do not expound" which is in Sefer Ben Sira chapter 2.

And in Yevamot (63) many will be seekers of your peace through his book chapter 10; a good woman is a good gift chapter 87; and in Bava Kamma (92) "every bird will dwell with its kind" - Tosafot wrote perhaps it is in Sefer Ben Sira, and similarly in chapter 5 and in the chapter "three who ate," and Rashi chapter Hadar and Ketubot 110b and chapter "one who sells fruits" and chapter "one who dies" and Yerushalmi Nazir chapter 3 of the prophets' words].

The Book of Ben Taglah [and the books of Ben La'anah and the books of the Miron mentioned in the Yerushalmi chapter Chelek were found at that time (Shir HaShirim chapter 19 b)].