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Jer 37:16 — When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Entire Verse.		A. M. 3415. B.C. 589.
into the dungeon		Jer 38:6,10-13; Gen 40:15; Lam 3:53,55
cabins		or, cells.

Correlating Passages

into the dungeon

	Jer 38:6	Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
	Jer 38:10	Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
	Jer 38:11	So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
	Jer 38:12	And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now [these] old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
	Jer 38:13	So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
	Gen 40:15	For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
	Lam 3:53	They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
	Lam 3:55	I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 37:16," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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