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Jeremiah 37

Jer 37:1-21—Jeremiah's imprisonment in the days of Zedekiah. (Cf. Jer 37:11, note.)

Jer 37:1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

Zedekiahreigned instead of Coniah

Jer 22:24; 2Ki 24:17; 2Ch 36:10.

Jer 37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.

neither henor the peopledid hearken

2Ch 36:12, 14.

Jer 37:5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt

See 2Ki 24:7; Eze 17:15.

Jer 37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire

Jer 34:22.

Jer 37:11 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,

And it came to pass

Five phases of Jeremiah's prison experiences are recorded:

  1. He is arrested in the gate and committed to a dungeon on the false charge of treason (Jer 37:11-15);
  2. he is released from the dungeon, but restrained to the court of the prison;
  3. he is imprisoned in the miry dungeon of Malchiah (Jer 38:1-6);
  4. he is again released from the dungeon and kept in the prison court (Jer 38:13-28) until the capture of the city;
  5. carried in chains from the city by Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, he is finally released at Ramah (Jer 40:1-4).

Jer 37:15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

put him in prison in the house of Jonathan

Jer 38:26.

Jer 37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

into the court of the prison

Jer 32:2; 38:13, 28.

until all the bread in the city were spent

Jer 38:9; 52:6.

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