NITHYAM SONGSJeremiah 39
World English Bible (WEB) • 18 verses
1In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it.
2In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.
RelatedZephaniah 1:10 · Micah 2:12-13 · Ezekiel 33:21 · 2 Kings 25:3-4 · Jeremiah 52:6-7 · Jeremiah 5:10
3All the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate: Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim the Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer the Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
4When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled and went 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.
Related2 Chronicles 32:5 · Amos 2:14 · Deuteronomy 32:24-30 · 2 Kings 25:4-7 · Leviticus 26:17 · Jeremiah 38:18-20
5But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.
Related2 Kings 23:33 · Joshua 5:10 · Jeremiah 38:18 · Jeremiah 52:8-9 · Joshua 4:13 · Jeremiah 38:23
6Then the king of Babylon killed Zedekiah’s sons in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah.
RelatedJeremiah 52:10 · Jeremiah 34:19-21 · Jeremiah 21:7 · Deuteronomy 28:34 · Jeremiah 24:8-10 · 2 Kings 25:7
7Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
RelatedEzekiel 12:13 · Jeremiah 32:4-5 · 2 Kings 25:7 · Judges 16:21 · Jeremiah 52:11 · Psalms 107:10-11
8The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the people’s houses with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
RelatedNehemiah 1:3 · Jeremiah 21:10 · Jeremiah 38:18 · Jeremiah 52:13-14 · Micah 3:12 · 2 Kings 25:9-10
9Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the rest of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the rest of the people who remained.
RelatedJeremiah 40:1 · Genesis 37:36 · 2 Kings 25:11 · Jeremiah 52:26 · Jeremiah 10:18 · 2 Kings 25:20
10But 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.
11Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard concerning Jeremiah, saying,
12“Take him and take care of him. Do him no harm; but do to him even as he tells you.”
13So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon
14sent 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 bring him home. So he lived among the people.
RelatedJeremiah 38:28 · 2 Kings 25:22-25 · Jeremiah 26:24 · 2 Kings 22:12 · Jeremiah 40:1-41:3 · Psalms 105:19
15Now the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
16“Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring my words on this city for evil, and not for good; and they will be accomplished before you in that day.
RelatedDaniel 9:12 · Zechariah 1:6 · Psalms 92:11 · Jeremiah 35:17 · Jeremiah 26:15 · Jeremiah 19:11-12
17But I will deliver you in that day,” says the LORD; “and you will not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.
RelatedPsalms 41:1-2 · Psalms 50:15 · Psalms 91:14-15 · 2 Samuel 24:14 · Jeremiah 1:19 · Jeremiah 38:9
18For I will surely save you. You won’t fall by the sword, but you will escape with your life, because you have put your trust in me,” says the LORD.’”
RelatedJeremiah 38:2 · Psalms 34:22 · Jeremiah 21:9 · Ephesians 1:12 · Psalms 84:12 · 1 Chronicles 5:20
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.