Jeremiah 37 :: New International Version (NIV)

Jeremiah in Prison

(2Ki 24:17; 2Ch 36:10 )

Jer 37:1Zedekiah son of Josiah was made king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he reigned in place of Jehoiachin[fn] son of Jehoiakim.

Jer 37:2

Jer 37:2Neither he nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention to the words the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.

Jer 37:3

Jer 37:3King Zedekiah, however, sent Jehukal son of Shelemiah with the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to Jeremiah the prophet with this message: “Please pray to the LORD our God for us.”

Jer 37:4

Jer 37:4Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison.

Jer 37:5

Jer 37:5Pharaoh’s army had marched out of Egypt, and when the Babylonians[fn] who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.

Jer 37:6

Jer 37:6Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:

Jer 37:7

Jer 37:7“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of me, ‘Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to support you, will go back to its own land, to Egypt.

Jer 37:8

Jer 37:8Then the Babylonians will return and attack this city; they will capture it and burn it down.’

Jer 37:9

Jer 37:9“This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves, thinking, ‘The Babylonians will surely leave us.’ They will not!

Jer 37:10

Jer 37:10Even if you were to defeat the entire Babylonian[fn] army that is attacking you and only wounded men were left in their tents, they would come out and burn this city down.”

Jer 37:11

Jer 37:11After the Babylonian army had withdrawn from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh’s army,

Jer 37:12

Jer 37:12Jeremiah started to leave the city to go to the territory of Benjamin to get his share of the property among the people there.

Jer 37:13

Jer 37:13But when he reached the Benjamin Gate, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, arrested him and said, “You are deserting to the Babylonians!”

Jer 37:14

Jer 37:14“That’s not true!” Jeremiah said. “I am not deserting to the Babylonians.” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.

Jer 37:15

Jer 37:15They were angry with Jeremiah and had him beaten and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary, which they had made into a prison.

Jer 37:16

Jer 37:16Jeremiah was put into a vaulted cell in a dungeon, where he remained a long time.

Jer 37:17

Jer 37:17Then King Zedekiah sent for him and had him brought to the palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there any word from the LORD?” “Yes,” Jeremiah replied, “you will be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.”

Jer 37:18

Jer 37:18Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “What crime have I committed against you or your attendants or this people, that you have put me in prison?

Jer 37:19

Jer 37:19Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, ‘The king of Babylon will not attack you or this land’?

Jer 37:20

Jer 37:20But now, my lord the king, please listen. Let me bring my petition before you: Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, or I will die there.”

Jer 37:21

Jer 37:21King Zedekiah then gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread from the street of the bakers each day until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

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NIV Footnotes

(37:1)

Hebrew Koniah, a variant of Jehoiachin

(37:5)

Or Chaldeans; also in verses 8, 9, 13 and 14

(37:10)

Or Chaldean; also in verse 11

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Jeremiah 37 :: New International Version (NIV)

Jeremiah in Prison

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