Discovery Box| (0.35) | Jer 33:12 |
| “I, the Lord who rules over all, say: 1 ‘This place will indeed lie in ruins. There will be no people or animals in it. But there will again be in it and in its towns sheepfolds where shepherds can rest their sheep. |
| (0.35) | Jer 33:24 |
| “You have surely noticed what these people are saying, haven’t you? They are saying, 1 ‘The Lord has rejected the two families of Israel and Judah 2 that he chose.’ So they have little regard that my people will ever again be a nation. 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 34:1 |
| The Lord spoke to Jeremiah while King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon was attacking Jerusalem 1 and the towns around it with a large army. This army consisted of troops from his own army and from the kingdoms and peoples of the lands under his dominion. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 34:5 |
| You will die a peaceful death. They will burn incense at your burial just as they did at the burial of your ancestors, the former kings who preceded you. 1 They will mourn for you, saying, “Poor, poor master!” 2 Indeed, you have my own word on this. 3 I, the Lord, affirm it!’” 4 |
| (0.35) | Jer 34:8 |
| The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah had made a covenant 1 with all the people in Jerusalem 2 to grant their slaves their freedom. |
| (0.35) | Jer 34:16 |
| But then you turned right around 1 and showed that you did not honor me. 2 Each of you took back your male and female slaves whom you had freed as they desired, and you forced them to be your slaves again. 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 35:7 |
| Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. 1 Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will 2 live a long time in the land that you wander about on.’ 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 35:11 |
| But when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded the land we said, ‘Let’s get up and go to Jerusalem 1 to get away from the Babylonian 2 and Aramean armies.’ That is why we are staying here in Jerusalem.” |
| (0.35) | Jer 36:9 |
| All the people living in Jerusalem 1 and all the people who came into Jerusalem from the towns of Judah came to observe a fast before the Lord. The fast took place in the ninth month of the fifth year that Jehoiakim son of Josiah was ruling over Judah. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 36:16 |
| When they had heard it all, 1 they expressed their alarm to one another. 2 Then they said to Baruch, “We must certainly give the king a report about everything you have read!” 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 36:23 |
| As soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns 1 of the scroll, the king 2 would cut them off with a penknife 3 and throw them on the fire in the firepot. He kept doing so until the whole scroll was burned up in the fire. 4 |
| (0.35) | Jer 36:28 |
| “Get another 1 scroll and write on it everything 2 that was written on the original scroll 3 that King Jehoiakim of Judah burned. |
| (0.35) | Jer 37:13 |
| But he only got as far as the Benjamin Gate. 1 There an officer in charge of the guards named Irijah, 2 who was the son of Shelemiah and the grandson of Hananiah, stopped him. He seized Jeremiah and said, 3 “You are deserting to the Babylonians!” 4 |
| (0.35) | Jer 38:2 |
| “The Lord says, ‘Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease. 1 Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians 2 will live. They will escape with their lives.’” 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 39:4 |
| When King Zedekiah of Judah and all his soldiers saw them, they tried to escape. They departed from the city during the night. They took a path through the king’s garden and passed out through the gate between the two walls. 1 Then they headed for the Jordan Valley. 2 |
| (0.35) | Jer 39:16 |
| “Go 1 and tell Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, ‘The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, “I will carry out against this city what I promised. It will mean disaster and not good fortune for it. 2 When that disaster happens, you will be there to see it. 3 |
| (0.35) | Jer 40:1 |
| The Lord spoke to Jeremiah 1 after Nebuzaradan the captain of the royal guard had set him free at Ramah. 2 He had taken him there in chains 3 along with all the people from Jerusalem 4 and Judah who were being carried off to exile to Babylon. |
| (0.35) | Jer 41:1 |
| But in the seventh month 1 Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama who was a member of the royal family and had been one of Zedekiah’s chief officers, came with ten of his men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. While they were eating a meal together with him there at Mizpah, |
| (0.35) | Jer 41:2 |
| Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him stood up, pulled out their swords, and killed Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan. Thus Ishmael killed the man that the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the country. |
| (0.35) | Jer 41:3 |
| Ishmael also killed all the Judeans 1 who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah and the Babylonian 2 soldiers who happened to be there. 3 |
