Jeremiah
Jeremiah was one of the Gadite warriors who joined David at Ziklag when he was fleeing from King Saul.
Jeremiah son of Hilkiah was a priest-turned-prophet from Anathoth in Benjamin, active from the thirteenth year of Josiah (627 BCE) through the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon (586 BCE) and beyond. Known as 'the weeping prophet,' he preached repentance to a resistant people, was persecuted, imprisoned, and thrown into a cistern (Jeremiah 38), and witnessed the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. He dictated his prophecies to his secretary Baruch, and his personal laments (the 'confessions of Jeremiah') reveal unparalleled spiritual anguish and intimacy with God. His promise of a 'new covenant' written on the heart rather than stone tablets (Jeremiah 31:31–34) is one of the most theologically significant Old Testament prophecies, extensively cited in the Letter to the Hebrews (Hebrews 8:8–12).