Jeremiah:38:14-28

noyes@Jeremiah:38:14 @ And King Zedekiah sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to him into the third entrance, which is in the house of Jehovah; and the king said to Jeremiah, "I will ask thee a question; hide nothing from me!"

noyes@Jeremiah:38:15 @ And Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "When I have told thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken to me."

noyes@Jeremiah:38:16 @ Then King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah in secret, saying, "As Jehovah liveth, who made for 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."

noyes@Jeremiah:38:17 @ Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, "Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt go forth to the chieftains of the king of Babylon, then shalt thou live; and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, thou and thine house.

noyes@Jeremiah:38:18 @ But if thou wilt not go forth to the chieftains of the king of Babylon, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldaeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand."

noyes@Jeremiah:38:19 @ And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, "I am afraid of the Jews who have gone over to the Chaldaeans, lest I should be delivered into their hand, and they should mock me."

noyes@Jeremiah:38:20 @ And Jeremiah said, "Thou shalt not be delivered up to them. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of Jehovah in what I speak to thee; so shall it be well with thee, and thou shalt live.

noyes@Jeremiah:38:21 @ But if thou refuse to go forth, this is what Jehovah hath revealed to me.

noyes@Jeremiah:38:22 @ Behold, all the women that are left in the house of the king of Judah shall be brought forth to the chieftains of the king of Babylon, and shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee; thy feet are sunk in the mire; they go backward.

noyes@Jeremiah:38:23 @ And all thy wives and thy children shall they bring out to the Chaldaeans, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but by the hand of the king of Babylon shalt thou be taken; and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire."

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

noyes@Jeremiah:38:25 @ But if the princes shall hear that I have talked with thee, and shall come to thee, and say to thee, Tell us, we pray thee, what thou hast said to the king; hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; and what the king hath said to thee;

noyes@Jeremiah:38:26 @ then shalt thou say to them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan to die there."

noyes@Jeremiah:38:27 @ Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all those words which the king had commanded. And they said no more to him, for the matter was not known.

noyes@Jeremiah:38:28 @ And Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison to the day when Jerusalem was taken.

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