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Jeremiah 37 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Jeremiah Warns against Trust in Pharaoh

(2Ki 24:17; 2Ch 36:10 )

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Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah the son of Josiah king in the land of Judah so he reigned as king instead of Coniah (also called Jeconiah and Jehoiachin) the son of Jehoiakim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:2 - But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD which He spoke through the prophet Jeremiah.

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Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah [along] with Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Please pray [now] to the LORD our God for us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:4 - Now Jeremiah was coming and going among the people, for they had not [yet] put him in prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:5 - Meanwhile, Pharaoh’s army had set out from Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the news about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.

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Then the word of the LORD came to the prophet Jeremiah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7 - “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘This is what you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, will return to Egypt, to their own land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:8 - “And the Chaldeans [of Babylon] will come again and fight against this city, and they will capture it and set it on fire.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:9 - “Thus says the LORD, ‘Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will certainly stay away from us,” for they will not stay away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:10 - ‘For even if you had defeated the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained only the wounded men among them, yet they would rise up, every man confined in his tent, and burn down this city with fire.’”

Jeremiah Imprisoned

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Now it happened when the army of the Chaldeans departed from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s [approaching] army,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:12 - that Jeremiah left Jerusalem [during the withdrawal of the Chaldean invaders] to go to [Anathoth, his hometown, in] the land of Benjamin to take possession of [the title to] the land [which he had purchased] there among the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:13 - When he was at the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah the son of Hananiah was there; and he seized and arrested Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are deserting to join the Chaldeans [of Babylon]!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:14 - But Jeremiah said, “That is a lie! I am not deserting to join the Chaldeans.” But the guard would not listen to him. So Irijah took Jeremiah and brought him to the princes (court officials).

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:15 - The princes were enraged with Jeremiah and beat him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe—for they had made that the prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:16 - When Jeremiah had come into [fn]the vaulted cell in the dungeon and had remained there many days,

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Zedekiah the king sent and brought him out; and in his palace the king secretly asked him, “Is there any word from the LORD?” And Jeremiah said, “There is!” Then he said, “You will be handed over to the king of Babylon.”

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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?

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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?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:20 - “Therefore now, please listen, O my lord the king; please let my petition come before you and be acceptable and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, that I may not die there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:21 - Then King Zedekiah commanded, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guardhouse, and a [round] loaf of bread from the bakers’ street was given to him daily, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained [imprisoned] in the court of the guardhouse.
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Lit the house of the cistern.
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