The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Ilive4Jesus]

Jeremiah 37:17

Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?”

“There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”

 

[Ilive4Jesus]

Jeremiah 37: 18

Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?

 

[Ilive4Jesus]

Jeremiah 37:19

Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 37:20 (NKJV)
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.”

 

[Ilive4Jesus]

Jeremiah 37:21

So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 38:1 (ESV)
Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah was saying to all the people:

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 38:2 (NASB)
“This is what the LORD says: ‘Anyone who stays in this city will die by the sword, by famine, or by plague; but anyone who surrenders to the Chaldeans will live and have his own life as plunder, and stay alive.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 38:3 (NIV)

And this is what the Lord says: “This city will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon,
who will capture it.”’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 38:4 (NIV)

Then the officials said to the king, ‘This man should be put to death. He is discouraging the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as all the people, by the things he is saying to them. This man is not seeking the good of these people but their ruin.’

 

[LoveinChrist]

Jeremiah 38:5 (NKJV)

Then Zedekiah the king said, “Look, he is in your hand. For the king can do nothing against you.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 38:6 (NASB)

So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 38:7 (NASB)

But Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, while he was in the king’s palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the cistern. Now the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin;

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 38:8 (NKJV)
Ebed-Melech went out of the king’s house and spoke to the king, saying:

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 38:9 (ESV)
“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 38:10 (ESV)
Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, “Take thirty men with you from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

 

[Ilive4Jesus]

Jeremiah 38:11

So Ebed-Melek took the men with him and went to a room under the treasury in the palace. He took some old rags and worn-out clothes from there and let them down with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.

 

[Ilive4Jesus]

Jeremiah 38:12

Ebed-Melek the Cushite said to Jeremiah, “Put these old rags and worn-out clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,

 

[Chester]

Jeremiah 38:13 KJV
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 38:14 (NIV)

Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and had him brought to the third entrance to the temple of the Lord.
‘I am going to ask you something,’ the king said to Jeremiah. ‘Do not hide anything from me.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 38:15 (NIV)

Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, ‘If I give you an answer, will you not kill me? Even if I did give you counsel, you would not
listen to me.’