Jeremiah in the Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon mentions Jeremiah by name three times. The first is after Nephi obtained the brass plates and he and his father began to search them. He recorded that it contained “the prophecies of the holy prophets, from the beginning, even down to the commencement of the reign of Zedekiah; and also many prophecies which have been spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah” (1 Nephi 5:13). So the brass plates contained some of the writings of Jeremiah, which makes sense since he had been an active prophet in Jerusalem for nearly three decades by the time that Lehi left the city. We know that Baruch the scribe wrote down the words of Jeremiah in the fourth year of King Jehoiakim, which would have been about seven years before the departure of Lehi (i.e. the first year of the reign of Zedekiah). They were read publicly, and after the king burned the scroll, Baruch wrote down a second expanded scroll of the words of Jeremiah. It is possible that those words were then copied onto the brass plate...