Discovery Box| (0.42) | Jer 31:36 |
| The Lord affirms, 1 “The descendants of Israel will not cease forever to be a nation in my sight. That could only happen if the fixed ordering of the heavenly lights were to cease to operate before me.” 2 |
| (0.42) | Jer 32:2 |
| Now at that time, 1 the armies of the king of Babylon were besieging Jerusalem. 2 The prophet Jeremiah was confined in the courtyard of the guardhouse 3 attached to the royal palace of Judah. |
| (0.42) | Jer 32:25 |
| The city is sure to fall into the hands of the Babylonians. 1 Yet, in spite of this, 2 you, Lord God, 3 have said to me, “Buy that field with silver and have the transaction legally witnessed.”’” 4 |
| (0.42) | Jer 32:39 |
| I will give them a single-minded purpose to live in a way that always shows respect for me. They will want to do that for 1 their own good and the good of the children who descend from them. |
| (0.42) | Jer 32:43 |
| You and your people 1 are saying that this land will become desolate, uninhabited by either people or animals. You are saying that it will be handed over to the Babylonians. 2 But fields 3 will again be bought in this land. 4 |
| (0.42) | Jer 33:4 |
| For I, the Lord God of Israel, have something more to say about the houses in this city and the royal buildings which have been torn down for defenses against the siege ramps and military incursions of the Babylonians: 1 |
| (0.42) | 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.” |
| (0.42) | 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 |
| (0.42) | Jer 36:4 |
| So Jeremiah summoned Baruch son of Neriah. Then Jeremiah dictated to Baruch everything the Lord had told him to say and Baruch wrote it all down in a scroll. 1 |
| (0.42) | Jer 36:8 |
| So Baruch son of Neriah did exactly what the prophet Jeremiah had told him to do. He read what the Lord had said from the scroll in the temple of the Lord. 1 |
| (0.42) | 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 |
| (0.42) | 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 |
| (0.42) | Jer 39:9 |
| Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, 1 took captive the rest of the people who were left in the city. He carried them off to Babylon along with the people who had deserted to him. 2 |
| (0.42) | 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 |
| (0.42) | Jer 41:7 |
| But as soon as they were inside the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw their bodies 1 in a cistern. |
| (0.42) | Jer 42:4 |
| The prophet Jeremiah answered them, “Agreed! 1 I will indeed pray to the Lord your God as you have asked. I will tell you everything the Lord replies in response to you. 2 I will not keep anything back from you.” |
| (0.42) | 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 |
| (0.42) | Jer 42:16 |
| the wars you fear will catch up with you there in the land of Egypt. The starvation you are worried about will follow you there to 1 Egypt. You will die there. 2 |
| (0.42) | Jer 42:17 |
| All the people who are determined to go and settle in Egypt will die from war, starvation, or disease. No one will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’ |
| (0.42) | 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.” |
