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Jeremiah 37 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:1 - And Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, became king in place of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:2 - But he and his servants and the people of the land did not give ear to the words of the Lord which he said by Jeremiah the prophet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:3 - And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Make prayer now to the Lord our God for us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:4 - (Now Jeremiah was going about among the people, for they had not put him in prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:5 - And Pharaoh's army had come out from Egypt: and the Chaldaeans, who were attacking Jerusalem, hearing news of them, went away from Jerusalem.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:6 - Then the word of the Lord came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7 - The Lord, the God of Israel, has said: This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from me: See, Pharaoh's army, which has come out to your help, will go back to Egypt, to their land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:8 - And the Chaldaeans will come back again and make war against this town and they will take it and put it on fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:9 - The Lord has said, Have no false hopes, saying to yourselves, The Chaldaeans will go away from us: for they will not go away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:10 - For even if you had overcome all the army of the Chaldaeans fighting against you, and there were only wounded men among them, still they would get up, every man in his tent, and put this town on fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:11 - And it came about that when the Chaldaean army outside Jerusalem had gone away for fear of Pharaoh's army,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:12 - Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, with the purpose of taking up his heritage there among the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:13 - But when he was at the Benjamin door, a captain of the watch named Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, who was stationed there, put his hand on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are going to give yourself up to the Chaldaeans.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:14 - Then Jeremiah said, That is not true; I am not going to the Chaldaeans. But he would not give ear to him: so Irijah made him prisoner and took him to the rulers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:15 - And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows 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 - So Jeremiah came into the hole of the prison, under the arches, and was there for a long time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:17 - Then King Zedekiah sent and got him out: and the king, questioning him secretly in his house, said, Is there any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said, There is. Then he said, You will be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:18 - Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, What has been my sin 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 now are your prophets who said to you, The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:20 - And now be pleased to give ear, O my lord the king; let my prayer for help come before you, and do not make me go back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, for fear that I may come to my death there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:21 - Then by the order of Zedekiah the king, Jeremiah was put into the place of the armed watchmen, and they gave him every day a cake of bread from the street of the bread-makers, till all the bread in the town was used up. So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.
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