The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Jeremiah 36:29 (NIV)

Also tell Jehoiakim king of Judah, “This is what the Lord says: you burned that scroll and said, ‘Why did you write on it
that the king of Babylon would certainly come and destroy this land and wipe from it both man and beast?’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 36:30 (NIV)

Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: he will have no one to sit on the throne of David;
his body will be thrown out and exposed to the heat by day and the frost by night.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 36:31 (BSB)
I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”

 

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Jeremiah 36:32 (ESV)
Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

 

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Jeremiah 37:1 (NKJV)
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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Jeremiah 37:2 (ESV)
But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD that he spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.

 

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Jeremiah 37:3 (ESV)
King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “Please pray for us to the LORD our God.”

 

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Jeremiah 37:4 (BSB)
Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison.

 

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Jeremiah 37:5 (ESV)
The army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt. And when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 37:6 (KJV)
Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 37:7 (CSB)

“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: This is what you will say to Judah’s king, who is sending you to inquire of me: ‘Watch: Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, is going to return to its own land of Egypt.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 37:8 (CSB)

The Chaldeans will then return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 37:9 (CSB)

This is what the Lord says: Don’t deceive yourselves by saying, “The Chaldeans will leave us for good,”
for they will not leave.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 37:10 (CSB)

Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire Chaldean army that is fighting with you, and there remained among them
only the badly wounded men,each in his tent, they would get up and burn this city.’”

 

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Jeremiah 37:11 (NKJV)
And it happened, when the army of the Chaldeans left the siege of Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,

 

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Jeremiah 37:12 (NKJV)
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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Jeremiah 37:13 (NKJV)
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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Jeremiah 37:14 (ESV)
And Jeremiah said, “It is a lie; I am not deserting to the Chaldeans.” But Irijah would not listen to him, and seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 37:15 (NKJV)

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.

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 37:16 (NKJV)

When Jeremiah entered the dungeon and the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,