Jeremiah 37
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Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah
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2 Kgs. 24:17; 2 Chr. 36:10 Zedekiah the son of Josiah, #[Ezek. 17:13] whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, reigned instead of #ch. 22:24Coniah the son of Jehoiakim. 2#See 2 Chr. 36:12-14But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the Lord that he spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.
3King Zedekiah sent #[ch. 38:1] Jehucal the son of #ver. 13; ch. 38:1 Shelemiah, and #See ch. 21:1 Zephaniah the priest, the son of #See ch. 35:4 Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “Please #[ch. 21:2]pray for us to the Lord our God.” 4#[Num. 27:17] Now Jeremiah was still going in and out among the people, #[ch. 32:2; 33:1]for he had not yet been put in prison. 5#[Ezek. 17:15] The army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt. And when #ch. 32:2 the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news about them, #ver. 11; ch. 34:21they withdrew from Jerusalem.
6Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet: 7“Thus says the Lord, God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who #[ch. 21:2] sent you to me to inquire of me, ‘Behold, #[Ezek. 29:2, 6] Pharaoh’s army that came to help you is about to #[ch. 46:17; 2 Kgs. 24:7; Lam. 4:17]return to Egypt, to its own land. 8And #ch. 34:22the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city. #ch. 34:22They shall capture it and burn it with fire. 9Thus says the Lord, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go away. 10#[ch. 21:4] For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and #[See ver. 8 above]burn this city with fire.’”
Jeremiah Imprisoned
11Now when #ver. 5the Chaldean army had withdrawn from Jerusalem at the approach of Pharaoh’s army, 12Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to #ch. 1:1; 32:8 the land of Benjamin #[ch. 32:9] to receive his portion there #ver. 4; ch. 39:14among the people. 13When he was at #ch. 38:7; Zech. 14:10 the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Irijah the son of #ver. 3; ch. 38:1 Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, #[ch. 21:9; 38:19; 39:9; 52:15]“You are deserting to the Chaldeans.” 14And Jeremiah said, “It is a lie; I am not deserting to the Chaldeans.” But Irijah would not listen to him, and seized Jeremiah and brought him to #ch. 36:12the officials. 15And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him #[Heb. 11:36]and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.
16 # See ch. 38:6-14 When Jeremiah had come to the dungeon cells and remained there many days, 17King Zedekiah sent for him and received him. The king questioned him #ch. 38:16 secretly in his house and said, “Is there any word from the Lord?” Jeremiah said, “There is.” Then he said, #See ch. 21:7“You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.” 18Jeremiah also said to King Zedekiah, “What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people, #[See ver. 15 above]that you have put me in prison? 19#[ch. 28:2, 11, 17]Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’? 20Now hear, please, O my lord the king: #[ch. 38:26] let my humble plea come before you and #[ch. 38:28]do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, lest I die there.” 21So King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to #See ch. 32:2 the court of the guard. And a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers’ street, #ch. 38:9; 52:6; Ezek. 4:10, 16until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in #See ch. 32:2 the court of the guard.
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Jeremiah 37
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1 And then king Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, reigned in place of Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim. For Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, appointed him as king in the land of Judah.
2 And neither he himself, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, obeyed the words of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of Jeremiah, the prophet.
3 And king Zedekiah sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying: "Pray to the Lord our God for us."
4 Now Jeremiah was walking freely in the midst of the people. For they had not yet sent him into the custody of the prison. And then the army of Pharaoh went forth from Egypt. And hearing this, the Chaldeans, who were besieging Jerusalem, withdrew from Jerusalem.
5 And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying:
6 "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: So shall you say to the king of Judah, who sent you to question me: Behold, the army of Pharaoh, which has gone forth in assistance to you, will return to their own land, into Egypt.
7 And the Chaldeans will return and will make war against this city. And they will seize it and burn it with fire.
8 Thus says the Lord: Do not be willing to deceive your own souls, saying: 'The Chaldeans will certainly withdraw and go away from us.' For they will not go away.
9 But even if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and if there were left behind from among them only a few wounded men, they would rise up, each one from his tent, and they would burn this city with fire."
10 Therefore, when the army of the Chaldeans had withdrawn from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's army,
11 Jeremiah went forth from Jerusalem, to go into the land of Benjamin, and to distribute a possession there, in the sight of the citizens.
12 And when he had arrived at the gate of Benjamin, the keeper of the gate, whose turn it was to be there, was named Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. And he apprehended Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are fleeing to the Chaldeans."
13 And Jeremiah responded: "That is false. I am not fleeing to the Chaldeans." But he did not listen to him. And so Irijah took Jeremiah, and he brought him to the leaders.
14 Therefore, the leaders were angry with Jeremiah, and so they beat him and sent him to the prison that was in the house of Jonathan, the scribe. For he was the chief over the prison.
15 And so Jeremiah went into the house of the prison and into a dungeon. And Jeremiah sat there for many days.
16 Then Zedekiah the king, sending, took him out and questioned him secretly in his house, and he said: "Do you think that there is any word from the Lord?" And Jeremiah said: "There is." And he said: "You will be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon."
17 And Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah: "How have I sinned against you, or your servants, or your people, such that you would cast me into a house of imprisonment?
18 Where are your prophets, who were prophesying to you, and who were saying: 'The king of Babylon will not overwhelm you and this land?'
19 Now therefore, listen, I beg you, my lord the king. Let my petition prevail in your sight. And do not send me back into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there."
20 Then king Zedekiah instructed that Jeremiah be confined to the vestibule of the prison, and that they should give him a twist of bread daily, along with stew, until all the bread in the city had been consumed. And Jeremiah remained at the entrance of the prison.
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