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Jeremiah 38

World English Bible (WEB) • 28 verses

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1Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying,
RelatedEzra 2:3 · Acts 5:28 · Jeremiah 37:3-4 · Nehemiah 7:9 · Nehemiah 11:12 · 1 Chronicles 9:12
2“The LORD says, ‘He who remains in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans will live. He will escape with his life and he will live.’
RelatedJeremiah 39:18 · Jeremiah 34:17 · Jeremiah 45:5 · Jeremiah 42:17 · Ezekiel 14:21 · Jeremiah 21:8-9
3The LORD says, ‘This city will surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.’”
RelatedJeremiah 21:10 · Jeremiah 32:3-5
4Then 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 harm.”
RelatedJeremiah 26:11 · Acts 16:20 · Jeremiah 29:7 · Exodus 5:4 · 1 Kings 21:20 · Amos 7:10
5Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.”
RelatedJohn 19:12-16 · 2 Samuel 3:39 · 1 Samuel 15:24 · 2 Samuel 19:22 · Proverbs 29:25 · 1 Samuel 29:9
6Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
RelatedJeremiah 37:21 · Jeremiah 38:22 · Jeremiah 37:16 · Psalms 69:2 · Psalms 69:14-15 · Lamentations 3:52-55
7Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king was then sitting in Benjamin’s gate),
RelatedAmos 5:10 · Jeremiah 37:13 · Jeremiah 29:2 · Deuteronomy 21:19 · Matthew 8:11-12 · Matthew 20:16
8Ebedmelech went out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying,
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. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”
RelatedJeremiah 37:21-38:6 · Proverbs 31:8-9 · Proverbs 24:11-12 · Job 31:34 · Jeremiah 52:6 · Esther 7:4-6
10Then 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.”
RelatedEsther 5:2 · Proverbs 21:1 · Psalms 75:10 · Esther 8:7
11So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took from there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
12Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords.” Jeremiah did so.
RelatedRomans 12:10 · Ephesians 4:32 · Romans 12:15
13So they lifted Jeremiah up with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
RelatedJeremiah 37:21 · Acts 28:16 · Acts 23:35 · Acts 28:30 · Jeremiah 38:6 · Jeremiah 38:28
14Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in the LORD’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.”
RelatedJeremiah 21:1-2 · 1 Kings 22:16 · Jeremiah 37:17 · Jeremiah 42:20 · Jeremiah 42:2-5 · 1 Samuel 3:17-18
15Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”
RelatedLuke 22:67-68
16So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As the LORD lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”
RelatedJeremiah 37:17 · Jeremiah 38:1-6 · John 3:2 · Isaiah 57:16 · Zechariah 12:1 · Numbers 16:22
17Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “The LORD, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you will go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul will live, and this city will not be burned with fire. You will live, along with your house.
RelatedJeremiah 27:12 · Jeremiah 27:17 · Jeremiah 38:2 · Jeremiah 39:3 · Jeremiah 21:8-10 · 2 Kings 24:12
18But if you will not go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you won’t escape out of their hand.’”
RelatedJeremiah 38:3 · Jeremiah 24:8-10 · 2 Kings 25:4-10 · Jeremiah 32:3-5 · Jeremiah 52:7-11 · Ezekiel 17:20-21
19Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.”
RelatedJohn 12:42 · Isaiah 51:12-13 · John 19:12-13 · Jeremiah 38:22 · Isaiah 57:11 · Jeremiah 39:9
20But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the LORD’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.
RelatedDaniel 4:27 · Isaiah 55:3 · Jeremiah 26:13 · 2 Chronicles 20:20 · Acts 26:29 · Jeremiah 11:4
21But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that the LORD has shown me:
RelatedEzekiel 2:4-5 · Ezekiel 2:7 · Jeremiah 26:15 · Exodus 10:3-4 · Acts 18:6 · Proverbs 1:24-31
22‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”
RelatedLamentations 5:11 · Lamentations 1:2 · Jeremiah 43:6 · Psalms 41:9 · Jeremiah 38:4-6 · Jeremiah 41:10
23They will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burned with fire.’”
RelatedJeremiah 41:10 · Jeremiah 38:18 · Jeremiah 39:6 · Jeremiah 27:12-13 · Jeremiah 52:8-13 · 2 Kings 25:7
24Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know of these words, and you won’t die.
25But 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 tell us what the king said to you;’
RelatedJeremiah 38:4-6 · Jeremiah 38:27
26then 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.’”
RelatedJeremiah 37:20 · Jeremiah 37:15 · Esther 4:8 · Jeremiah 42:2
27Then all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him, for the matter was not perceived.
Related2 Kings 6:19 · 1 Samuel 10:15-16 · 1 Samuel 16:2-5 · Acts 23:6
28So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
RelatedJeremiah 39:14 · Jeremiah 37:21 · Jeremiah 38:13 · Psalms 23:4 · Jeremiah 15:20-21 · 2 Timothy 4:17-18
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.