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Jeremiah, starting at chapter 37
{37:1} Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah
the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in
the land of Judah. {37:2} But neither he, nor his servants, nor the
people of the land, listened to the words of the LORD, which he spoke
by the prophet Jeremiah. {37:3} Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son
of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the
prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to the LORD our God for us. {37:4}
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not
put him into prison. {37:5} Pharaoh's army had come forth out of
Egypt; and when the Kasdim who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of
them, they broke up from Jerusalem. {37:6} Then came the word of the
LORD to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, {37:7} Thus says the LORD, the
God of Israel, You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to
inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which has come forth to help
you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. {37:8} The Kasdim
shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it,
and burn it with fire. {37:9} Thus says the LORD, Don't deceive
yourselves, saying, The Kasdim shall surely depart from us; for they
shall not depart. {37:10} For though you had struck the whole army of
the Kasdim who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men
among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn
this city with fire. {37:11} It happened that, when the army of the
Kasdim was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
{37:12} then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land
of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst of the people.
{37:13} When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard
was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of
Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are
falling away to the Kasdim. {37:14} Then Jeremiah said, It is false; I
am not falling away to the Kasdim. But he didn't listen to him; so
Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. {37:15}
The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in
prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the
prison. {37:16} When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and
into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; {37:17}
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king asked him
secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD?
Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, You shall be delivered into the
hand of the king of Babylon. {37:18} Moreover Jeremiah said to king
Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against you, or against your servants,
or against this people, that you have put me in prison? {37:19} Where
now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of
Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? {37:20} Now
please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented
before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan
the scribe, lest I die there. {37:21} Then Zedekiah the king
commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard;
and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street,
until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in
the court of the guard.
{38:1} Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of
Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of
Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people,
saying, {38:2} Thus says the LORD, He who remains in this city shall
die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who
goes forth to the Kasdim shall live, and his life shall be to him for
a prey, and he shall live. {38:3} Thus says the LORD, This city shall
surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and
he shall take it. {38:4} Then the princes said to the king, "Please
let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men
of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in
speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of
this people, but the hurt." {38:5} Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he
is in your hand; for the king is not he who can do anything against
you. {38:6} Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of
Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they
let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but
mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. {38:7} Now when Ebedmelech the
Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had
put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of
Benjamin), {38:8} Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and
spoke to the king, saying, {38:9} My lord the king, these men have
done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom
they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place
where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the
city. {38:10} Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian,
saying, Take from here thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the
prophet out of the dungeon, before he dies. {38:11} So Ebedmelech took
the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the
treasury, and took there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down
by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. {38:12} Ebedmelech the
Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out garments
under your armpits under the cords. Jeremiah did so. {38:13} So they
drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon:
and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard. {38:14} Then Zedekiah
the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to him into the third
entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said to Jeremiah,
I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me. {38:15} Then Jeremiah
said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me
to death? and if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.
{38:16} So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As
the LORD lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death,
neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.
{38:17} Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of
Hosts, the God of Israel: If you will go forth to the king of
Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not
be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house. {38:18} But
if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall
this city be given into the hand of the Kasdim, and they shall burn it
with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand. {38:19}
Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews who are
fallen away to the Kasdim, lest they deliver me into their hand, and
they mock me. {38:20} But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you.
Obey, I beg you, the voice of the LORD, in that which I speak to you:
so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live. {38:21} But if
you refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:
{38:22} behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's
house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and
those women shall say, Your familiar friends have set you on, and have
prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned
away back. {38:23} They shall bring out all your wives and your
children to the Kasdim; and you shall not escape out of their hand,
but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and you shall
cause this city to be burned with fire. {38:24} Then Zedekiah said to
Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and you shall not die.
{38:25} But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they
come to you, and tell you, Declare to us now what you have said to the
king; don't hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also
what the king said to you: {38:26} then you shall tell them, I
presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me
to return to Jonathan's house, to die there. {38:27} Then came all the
princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all
these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking
with him; for the matter was not perceived. {38:28} So Jeremiah stayed
in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
{39:1} It happened when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of
Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it; {39:2}
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day
of the month, a breach was made in the city), {39:3} that all the
princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate,
Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer,
Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
{39:4} It happened that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the
men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by
night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between the
two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah. {39:5} But the army of
the Kasdim pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of
Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he
gave judgment on him. {39:6} Then the king of Babylon killed the sons
of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed
all the nobles of Judah. {39:7} Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes,
and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. {39:8} The Kasdim
burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and
broke down the walls of Jerusalem. {39:9} Then Nebuzaradan the captain
of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the
people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to
him, and the residue of the people who remained. {39:10} But
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people,
who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and
fields at the same time. {39:11} Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
commanded Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard concerning Jeremiah,
saying, {39:12} Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm;
but do to him even as he shall tell you. {39:13} So Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal
Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;
{39:14} they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard,
and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,
that he should carry him home: so he lived among the people. {39:15}
Now the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the
court of the guard, saying, {39:16} Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the
Ethiopian, saying, Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel:
Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good;
and they shall be accomplished before you in that day. {39:17} But I
will deliver you in that day, says the LORD; and you shall not be
given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. {39:18} For I
will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your
life shall be for a prey to you; because you have put your trust in
me, says the LORD.
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