Discovery Box| (0.12) | Jer 34:13 |
| “The Lord God of Israel has a message for you. 1 ‘I made a covenant with your ancestors 2 when I brought them out of Egypt where they had been slaves. 3 It stipulated, 4 |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | Jer 34:18 |
| I will punish those people who have violated their covenant with me. I will make them like the calf they cut in two and passed between its pieces. 1 I will do so because they did not keep the terms of the covenant they made in my presence. 2 |
| (0.12) | Jer 35:18 |
| Then Jeremiah spoke to the Rechabite community, “The Lord God of Israel who rules over all 1 says, ‘You have obeyed the orders of your ancestor Jonadab. You have followed all his instructions. You have done exactly as he commanded you.’ |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | Jer 38:18 |
| But if you do not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, this city will be handed over to the Babylonians 1 and they will burn it down. You yourself will not escape from them.’” 2 |
| (0.12) | Jer 38:19 |
| Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Babylonians. 1 The Babylonians might hand me over to them and they will torture me.” 2 |
| (0.12) | Jer 38:20 |
| Then Jeremiah answered, “You will not be handed over to them. Please obey the Lord by doing what I have been telling you. 1 Then all will go well with you and your life will be spared. 2 |
| (0.12) | Jer 39:1 |
| King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and laid siege to it. The siege began in the tenth month of the ninth year that Zedekiah ruled over Judah. 1 |
| (0.12) | 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 |
| (0.12) | 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. |
| (0.12) | Jer 41:6 |
| Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them. He was pretending to cry 1 as he walked along. When he met them, he said to them, “Come with me to meet Gedaliah son of Ahikam.” 2 |
| (0.12) | Jer 41:18 |
| They were afraid of what the Babylonians might do 1 because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the country. |
| (0.12) | Jer 42:5 |
| They answered Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not do just as 1 the Lord sends you to tell us to do. |
| (0.12) | Jer 42:11 |
| Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon whom you now fear. 1 Do not be afraid of him because I will be with you to save you and to rescue you from his power. I, the Lord, affirm it! 2 |
| (0.12) | Jer 42:14 |
| You must not say, ‘No, we will not stay. Instead we will go and live in the land of Egypt where we will not face war, 1 or hear the enemy’s trumpet calls, 2 or starve for lack of food.’ 3 |
| (0.12) | Jer 43:3 |
| But Baruch son of Neriah is stirring you up against us. 1 He wants to hand us over 2 to the Babylonians 3 so that they will kill us or carry us off into exile in Babylon.” |
| (0.12) | Jer 43:4 |
| So Johanan son of Kareah, all the army officers, and all the rest of the people did not obey the Lord’s command to stay in the land. |
| (0.12) | Jer 43:13 |
| He will demolish the sacred pillars in the temple of the sun 1 in Egypt and will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.”’” |
| (0.12) | Jer 44:6 |
| So my anger and my wrath were poured out and burned like a fire through the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. That is why they have become the desolate ruins that they are today.’ |
