rwbs - Jeremiah:37-39

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:1 @ And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:2 @ But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, hearkened to the words of the LORD, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah. (note:)by…: Hebrews. by the hand of the prophet(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:3 @ And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to the LORD our God for us.

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:4 @ Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:5 @ Then Pharaoh’s army had come from Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:6 @ Then came the word of the LORD to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:7 @ Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you to me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which hath come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:8 @ And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:9 @ Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart. (note:)yourselves: Hebrews. your souls(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:10 @ For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained wounded men among them, should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire. (note:)wounded: Hebrews. thrust through(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:11 @ And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army, (note:)broken…: Hebrews. made to ascend(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:12 @ Then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself from there in the midst of the people. (note:)separate…: or, to slip away from thence in the midst of the people(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:13 @ And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard there, whose name Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:14 @ Then said Jeremiah, false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. (note:)false: Hebrews. falsehood, or, a lie(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:15 @ Therefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and beat him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:16 @ When Jeremiah had entered into the dungeon, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; (note:)cabins: or, cells(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:17 @ Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:18 @ Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, How have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:19 @ Where now your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:20 @ Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. (note:)let…: Hebrews. let my supplication fall(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:37:21 @ Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the baker’s street, until all the bread in the city should be consumed. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:1 @ Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken to all the people, saying,

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:2 @ Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prize, and shall live.

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:3 @ Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which shall take it.

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:4 @ Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the harm. (note:)welfare: Hebrews. peace(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:5 @ Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he in your hand: for the king not can do thing against you.

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:6 @ Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. (note:)of Hammelech: or, of the king(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:7 @ Now when Ebedmelech the Cushite, one of the eunuchs who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:8 @ Ebedmelech went out of the king’s house, and spoke to the king, saying,

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:9 @ My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is certain to die from hunger in the place where he is: for no more bread in the city. (note:)he is like…: Hebrews. he will die(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:10 @ Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Cushite, saying, Take from here thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he dieth. (note:)with thee: Hebrews. in thine hand(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:11 @ So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took from there old clothes and old rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:12 @ And Ebedmelech the Cushite said to Jeremiah, Put now old clothes and old rags under thy arms under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:13 @ So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:14 @ Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to him into the third entrance that in the house of the LORD: and the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me. (note:)third: or, principal(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:15 @ Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare to thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken to me?

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:16 @ So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:17 @ Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thy house:

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:18 @ But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape from their hand.

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:19 @ And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:20 @ But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak to thee: so it shall be well to thee, and thy soul shall live.

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:21 @ But if thou shalt refuse to go forth, this the word that the LORD hath shown me:

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:22 @ And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back. (note:)Thy friends: Hebrews. Men of thy peace(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:23 @ So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire. (note:)thou shalt cause…: Hebrews. thou shalt burn, etc(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:24 @ Then said Zedekiah to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:25 @ But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come to thee, and say to thee, Declare to us now what thou hast said to the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said to thee:

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:26 @ Then thou shalt say to them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:27 @ Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived. (note:)they…: Hebrews. they were silent from him(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:38:28 @ So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was when Jerusalem was taken.

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:1 @ In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:2 @ in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth of the month, the city was broken up.

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:3 @ And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:4 @ And it came to pass, when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:5 @ But the Chaldeans’ army pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him. (note:)gave…: Hebrews. spake with him judgments(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:6 @ Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:7 @ Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon. (note:)with…: Hebrews. with two brasen chains, or, fetters(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:8 @ And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:9 @ Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained. (note:)captain…: or, chief marshal: Hebrews. chief of the executioners, or, slaughtermen(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:10 @ But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. (note:)captain…: or, chief marshal: Hebrews. chief of the executioners, or, slaughtermen(:note)at the…: Heb. in that day

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:11 @ Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying, (note:)to: Hebrews. by the hand of(:note)captain…: or, chief marshal: Heb. chief of the executioners, or, slaughtermen

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:12 @ Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do to him even as he shall say to thee. (note:)look…: Hebrews. set thine eyes upon him(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:13 @ So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon’s princes; (note:)captain…: or, chief marshal: Hebrews. chief of the executioners, or, slaughtermen(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:14 @ Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:15 @ Now the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:16 @ Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Cushite, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be in that day before thee.

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:17 @ But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou afraid.

rwbs@Jeremiah:39:18 @ For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prize to thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:40:1 @ The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon. (note:)chains: or, manicles(:note)