Discovery Box| (0.28) | Jer 34:22 |
| For I, the Lord, affirm that 1 I will soon give the order and bring them back to this city. They will fight against it and capture it and burn it down. I will also make the towns of Judah desolate so that there will be no one living in them.”’” |
| (0.28) | Jer 35:4 |
| I took them to the Lord’s temple. I took them into the room where the disciples of the prophet Hanan son of Igdaliah stayed. 1 That room was next to the one where the temple officers stayed and above the room where Maaseiah son of Shallum, one of the doorkeepers 2 of the temple, stayed. |
| (0.28) | Jer 36:2 |
| “Get a scroll. 1 Write on it everything I have told you to say 2 about Israel, Judah, and all the other nations since I began to speak to you in the reign of Josiah until now. 3 |
| (0.28) | Jer 36:3 |
| Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the disaster I intend to bring on them, they will all stop doing the evil things they have been doing. 1 If they do, I will forgive their sins and the wicked things they have done.” 2 |
| (0.28) | Jer 36:6 |
| So you go there the next time all the people of Judah come in from their towns to fast 1 in the Lord’s temple. Read out loud where all of them can hear you what I told you the Lord said, which you wrote in the scroll. 2 |
| (0.28) | Jer 36:10 |
| At that time Baruch went into the temple of the Lord. He stood in the entrance of the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan who had been the royal secretary. 1 That room was in the upper court 2 near the entrance of the New Gate. 3 There, where all the people could hear him, he read from the scroll what Jeremiah had said. 4 |
| (0.28) | 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. |
| (0.28) | Jer 36:32 |
| Then Jeremiah got another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah. As Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on this scroll everything that had been on the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah burned in the fire. They also added on this scroll several other messages of the same kind. 1 |
| (0.28) | Jer 37:7 |
| “The Lord God of Israel says, ‘Give a message to the king of Judah who sent you to ask me to help him. 1 Tell him, “The army of Pharaoh that was on its way to help you will go back home to Egypt. 2 |
| (0.28) | Jer 37:10 |
| For even if you were to defeat all the Babylonian forces 1 fighting against you so badly that only wounded men were left lying in their tents, they would get up and burn this city down.”’” 2 |
| (0.28) | 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 |
| (0.28) | Jer 37:17 |
| Then King Zedekiah had him brought to the palace. There he questioned him privately and asked him, 1 “Is there any message from the Lord?” Jeremiah answered, “Yes, there is.” Then he announced, 2 “You will be handed over to the king of Babylon.” 3 |
| (0.28) | Jer 37:21 |
| Then King Zedekiah ordered that Jeremiah be committed to the courtyard of the guardhouse. He also ordered that a loaf of bread 1 be given to him every day from the baker’s street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah was kept 2 in the courtyard of the guardhouse. |
| (0.28) | Jer 38:1 |
| Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jehucal 1 son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur 2 son of Malkijah had heard 3 the things that Jeremiah had been telling the people. They had heard him say, |
| (0.28) | Jer 38:7 |
| An Ethiopian, Ebed Melech, 1 a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put 2 in the cistern. While the king was holding court 3 at the Benjamin Gate, |
| (0.28) | Jer 38:11 |
| So Ebed Melech took the men with him and went to a room under the treasure room in the palace. 1 He got some worn-out clothes and old rags 2 from there and let them down by ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern. |
| (0.28) | Jer 38:27 |
| All the officials did indeed come and question Jeremiah. 1 He told them exactly what the king had instructed him to say. 2 They stopped questioning him any further because no one had actually heard their conversation. 3 |
| (0.28) | 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 |
| (0.28) | Jer 40:7 |
| Now some of the officers of the Judean army and their troops had been hiding in the countryside. They heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam to govern 1 the country. They also heard that he had been put in charge over the men, women, and children from the poorer classes of the land who had not been carried off into exile in Babylon. 2 |
| (0.28) | Jer 40:9 |
| Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. 1 “Do not be afraid to submit to the Babylonians. 2 Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you. |
