Jeremiah was a prophet in the kingdom of Judah whose ministry overlapped with Lehi’s, in the years before the Babylonian captivity. He warned of the destruction of Jerusalem and called the people to reform. According to Lehi’s son Nephi, the people of Jerusalem rejected the prophets and cast Jeremiah into prison, and they sought Lehi’s life and drove him out of the land (1 Ne. 7:14).
Jeremiah’s prophecies were among the writings on the brass plates that Lehi’s family obtained and carried to the promised land. The plates held the prophecies of the holy prophets down to the commencement of the reign of Zedekiah, including many spoken by Jeremiah (1 Ne. 5:13).
About six centuries later the Nephite prophet Nephi, son of Helaman, named Jeremiah among the prophets who had testified of the Messiah, identifying him as the prophet who foretold the destruction of Jerusalem, and noting that Jerusalem had since been destroyed according to his words (Hel. 8:20). Jeremiah also recorded the Lord’s promise of a new covenant, in which God would put his law in the people’s inward parts and write it in their hearts (Jer. 31:33).