Discovery Box| (0.57) | Jer 38:16 |
| So King Zedekiah made a secret promise to Jeremiah and sealed it with an oath. He promised, 1 “As surely as the Lord lives who has given us life and breath, 2 I promise you this: I will not kill you or hand you over to those men who want to kill you.” 3 |
| (0.57) | Jer 38:17 |
| Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “The Lord, the God who rules over all, the God of Israel, 1 says, ‘You must surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon. If you do, your life will be spared 2 and this city will not be burned down. Indeed, you and your whole family will be spared. |
| (0.57) | 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 |
| (0.57) | 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 |
| (0.57) | Jer 39:5 |
| But the Babylonian 1 army chased after them. They caught up with Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho 2 and captured him. 3 They took him to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon at Riblah 4 in the territory of Hamath and Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him there. |
| (0.57) | Jer 44:30 |
| I, the Lord, promise that 1 I will hand Pharaoh Hophra 2 king of Egypt over to his enemies who are seeking to kill him. I will do that just as surely as I handed King Zedekiah of Judah over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, his enemy who was seeking to kill him.’” |
| (0.57) | Jer 51:59 |
| This is the order Jeremiah the prophet gave to Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went to King Zedekiah of Judah in Babylon during the fourth year of his reign. 1 (Seraiah was a quartermaster.) 2 |
| (0.42) | Jer 21:7 |
| Then 1 I, the Lord, promise that 2 I will hand over King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, and any of the people who survive the war, starvation, and disease. I will hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and to their enemies who want to kill them. He will slaughter them with the sword. He will not show them any mercy, compassion, or pity.’ |
