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Jeremiah 37 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Jeremiah Warns Against Trust in Pharaoh

(2Ki 24:17; 2Ch 36:10 )
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Now Zedekiah the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had made king in the land of Judah, reigned as king in place of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:2 - But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of Yahweh which He spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.
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Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “Please pray to Yahweh our God on our behalf.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:4 - Now Jeremiah was still coming in and going out among the people; they had not yet put him in the prison.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:5 - Meanwhile, Pharaoh’s military force had come out from Egypt; and the Chaldeans who had been besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them. So they withdrew from Jerusalem.
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Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7 - “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Thus you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: “Behold, the military force of Pharaoh which has come out for your assistance is going to return to its own land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:8 - “The Chaldeans will also return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:9 - “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:10 - ‘For even if you had struck down the entire military force of the Chaldeans who were fighting against you, and there were only wounded men remaining among them, each man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’”

Jeremiah Imprisoned

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Now it happened when the military force of the Chaldeans had withdrawn from Jerusalem because of the military force of Pharaoh,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:12 - that Jeremiah went out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin in order to obtain his portion of some property there among the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:13 - Now it happened that while he was at the Gate of Benjamin, the master of the guard whose name was Irijah the son of Shelemiah the son of Hananiah was there; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are [fn]going over to the Chaldeans!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:14 - But Jeremiah said, “A lie! I am not [fn]going over to the Chaldeans”; yet he would not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:15 - Then the officials were angry at Jeremiah and struck him, and they put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe because they had made that house into the prison.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:16 - For Jeremiah had come into the [fn]pit, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.
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Then King Zedekiah sent and took him out; and in his palace the king secretly asked him and said, “Is there a word from Yahweh?” And Jeremiah said, “There is!” Then he said, “You will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon!”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:18 - Moreover, Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “In what way have I sinned against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:19 - “Where then are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land’?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:20 - “But now, please listen, O my lord the king; please let my supplication [fn]come before you, and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, that I may not die there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:21 - Then King Zedekiah gave commandment, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard and gave him a loaf of bread daily from the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city had come to an end. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
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