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Jeremiah 37 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Zedekiah’s Vain Hope
Jeremiah Imprisoned
(2 Kin. 24:17; 2 Chr. 36:10 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:1 - Now King Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

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

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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, “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 - Then Pharaoh’s army came up from Egypt; and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they departed 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 - “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Thus you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army which has come up to help you will return to Egypt, to their own land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:8 - “And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city, and take it and burn it with fire.” ’

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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:11 - And it happened, when the army of the Chaldeans left the siege of Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:12 - that Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin to claim his property there among the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:13 - And when he was in the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there whose name was Irijah the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:14 - Then Jeremiah said, “False! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans.” But he did not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the princes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:15 - Therefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and they struck 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 entered the dungeon and the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:17 - then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. The king asked him secretly in his house, and said, “Is there any word from the LORD?” And Jeremiah said, “There is.” Then he said, “You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:18 - Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “What offense have I committed against you, 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 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 please hear now, O my lord the king. Please, let my petition be accepted before you, and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:21 - Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah to the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread from the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
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