New American Standard Bible 1995

Jeremiah 37:14-19

14But Jeremiah said, “1A lie! I am not 2going over to the Chaldeans”; yet he would not listen to him. So Irijah arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials. 15Then the officials were 3angry at Jeremiah and beat him, and they 4put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, which they had made into the prison. 16For Jeremiah had come into the 5 6dungeon, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.

17Now King Zedekiah sent and took him out; and in his palace the king 7secretly asked him and said, “Is there a 8word from the Lord?” And Jeremiah said, “There is!” Then he said, “You will be 9given into the hand of the king of Babylon!” 18Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “10In what way have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison? 19 11Where then are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The 12king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land’?

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Notes

1. Jeremiah 37:14 Ps 27:12; 52:1, 2; Jer 40:4-6; Matt 5:11, 12 ↩
2. Jeremiah 37:14 Lit falling ↩
3. Jeremiah 37:15 Jer 18:23; 20:1-3; 26:16; Matt 21:35 ↩
4. Jeremiah 37:15 Gen 39:20; 2 Chr 16:10; 18:26; Jer 38:26; Acts 5:18 ↩
5. Jeremiah 37:16 Lit house of the cistern-pit ↩
6. Jeremiah 37:16 Jer 38:6 ↩
7. Jeremiah 37:17 1 Kin 14:1-4; Jer 38:5, 14-16, 24-27 ↩
8. Jeremiah 37:17 1 Kin 22:15, 16; 2 Kin 3:11, 12; Jer 15:11; 21:1, 2; 37:3 ↩
9. Jeremiah 37:17 Jer 21:7; 24:8; Ezek 12:12, 13; 17:19, 20 ↩
10. Jeremiah 37:18 1 Sam 24:9; 26:18; Dan 6:22; John 10:32; Acts 25:8, 11, 25 ↩
11. Jeremiah 37:19 Deut 32:37, 38; 2 Kin 3:13; Jer 2:28 ↩
12. Jeremiah 37:19 Jer 27:14; 28:1-4, 10-17 ↩

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