Discovery Box| (0.60) | Jer 37:9 |
| Moreover, I, the Lord, warn you not to deceive yourselves into thinking that the Babylonian forces 1 will go away and leave you alone. For they will not go away. 2 |
| (0.60) | 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 |
| (0.60) | Jer 37:14 |
| Jeremiah answered, “That’s a lie! I am not deserting to the Babylonians.” 1 But Irijah would not listen to him. Irijah put Jeremiah under arrest and took him to the officials. |
| (0.60) | Jer 37:15 |
| The officials were very angry 1 at Jeremiah. They had him flogged and put in prison in the house of Jonathan, the royal secretary, which they had converted into a place for confining prisoners. 2 |
| (0.60) | Jer 37:20 |
| But now please listen, your royal Majesty, 1 and grant my plea for mercy. 2 Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan, the royal secretary. If you do, I will die there.” 3 |
| (0.60) | 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, |
| (0.60) | 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 |
| (0.60) | Jer 38:10 |
| Then the king gave Ebed Melech the Ethiopian the following order: “Take thirty 1 men with you from here and go pull the prophet Jeremiah out of the cistern before he dies.” |
| (0.60) | 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 |
| (0.60) | 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 |
| (0.60) | 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 |
| (0.60) | Jer 38:23 |
| “All your wives and your children will be turned over to the Babylonians. 1 You yourself will not escape from them but will be captured by the 2 king of Babylon. This city will be burned down.” 3 |
| (0.60) | 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 |
| (0.60) | 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 |
| (0.60) | Jer 39:13 |
| So Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, Nebushazban, who was a chief officer, Nergal-Sharezer, who was a high official, 1 and all the other officers of the king of Babylon |
| (0.60) | Jer 40:3 |
| Now he has brought it about. The Lord has done just as he threatened to do. This disaster has happened because you people sinned against the Lord and did not obey him. 1 |
| (0.60) | Jer 40:6 |
| So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah 1 and lived there with him. He stayed there to live among the people who had been left in the land of Judah. 2 |
| (0.60) | 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. |
| (0.60) | 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 |
| (0.60) | 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 |
