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Jeremiah 38:4, 5, 16, 19

Jeremiah 38:4 NIV

Then the officials said to the king, “This man should be put to death. He is discouraging the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as all the people, by the things he is saying to them. This man is not seeking the good of these people but their ruin.”

Jeremiah 38:5 NIV

“He is in your hands,” King Zedekiah answered. “The king can do nothing to oppose you.”

Jeremiah 38:16 NIV

But King Zedekiah swore this oath secretly to Jeremiah: “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us breath, I will neither kill you nor hand you over to those who want to kill you.”

Jeremiah 38:19 NIV

King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have gone over to the Babylonians, for the Babylonians may hand me over to them and they will mistreat me.”