1And then king Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, reigned in place of Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim. For Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, appointed him as king in the land of Judah.

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2 Kings 24:17, Jeremiah 22:24, 2 Kings 24:17, Jeremiah 22:24, 2 Kings 24:12

2And neither he himself, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, obeyed the words of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of Jeremiah, the prophet.

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2 Chronicles 36:12, 2 Chronicles 36:16, 2 Kings 24:19, 2 Kings 24:20, 1 Thessalonians 4:8

3And king Zedekiah sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying: “Pray to the Lord our God for us.”

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Jeremiah 21:1, Jeremiah 21:2, Jeremiah 21:1, Jeremiah 21:2, Jeremiah 42:20

4Now Jeremiah was walking freely in the midst of the people. For they had not yet sent him into the custody of the prison. And then the army of Pharaoh went forth from Egypt. And hearing this, the Chaldeans, who were besieging Jerusalem, withdrew from Jerusalem.

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Jeremiah 37:15, Jeremiah 37:15, Jeremiah 32:2, Jeremiah 32:3, Jeremiah 32:2

5And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying:

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Ezekiel 17:15, Ezekiel 17:15, Jeremiah 37:11, Jeremiah 34:21, 2 Kings 24:7

6“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: So shall you say to the king of Judah, who sent you to question me: Behold, the army of Pharaoh, which has gone forth in assistance to you, will return to their own land, into Egypt.

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7And the Chaldeans will return and will make war against this city. And they will seize it and burn it with fire.

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Lamentations 4:17, Lamentations 4:17, Ezekiel 17:17, Isaiah 31:1, Isaiah 31:3

8Thus says the Lord: Do not be willing to deceive your own souls, saying: ‘The Chaldeans will certainly withdraw and go away from us.’ For they will not go away.

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Jeremiah 38:23, Jeremiah 39:2, Jeremiah 39:8, Jeremiah 38:23, Jeremiah 39:2

9But even if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and if there were left behind from among them only a few wounded men, they would rise up, each one from his tent, and they would burn this city with fire.”

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Obadiah 1:3, Obadiah 1:3, James 1:22, Galatians 6:7, Matthew 24:4

10Therefore, when the army of the Chaldeans had withdrawn from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh’s army,

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Joel 2:11, Jeremiah 50:45, Isaiah 30:17, Leviticus 26:36, Leviticus 26:38

11Jeremiah went forth from Jerusalem, to go into the land of Benjamin, and to distribute a possession there, in the sight of the citizens.

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Jeremiah 37:5, Jeremiah 37:5

12And when he had arrived at the gate of Benjamin, the keeper of the gate, whose turn it was to be there, was named Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah. And he apprehended Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are fleeing to the Chaldeans.”

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Jeremiah 1:1, Jeremiah 1:1, 1 Kings 19:3, 1 Chronicles 6:60, 1 Kings 19:9

13And Jeremiah responded: “That is false. I am not fleeing to the Chaldeans.” But he did not listen to him. And so Irijah took Jeremiah, and he brought him to the leaders.

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Zechariah 14:10, Jeremiah 38:7, Zechariah 14:10, Jeremiah 38:7, Jeremiah 21:9

14Therefore, the leaders were angry with Jeremiah, and so they beat him and sent him to the prison that was in the house of Jonathan, the scribe. For he was the chief over the prison.

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Jeremiah 40:4, Jeremiah 40:6, Psalms 52:1, Psalms 52:2, Matthew 5:11

15And so Jeremiah went into the house of the prison and into a dungeon. And Jeremiah sat there for many days.

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Jeremiah 38:26, Jeremiah 38:26, 2 Chronicles 16:10, 2 Chronicles 18:26, Acts 5:18

16Then Zedekiah the king, sending, took him out and questioned him secretly in his house, and he said: “Do you think that there is any word from the Lord?” And Jeremiah said: “There is.” And he said: “You will be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.”

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Jeremiah 38:6, Jeremiah 38:6, Jeremiah 38:10, Jeremiah 38:13, Jeremiah 38:10

17And Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah: “How have I sinned against you, or your servants, or your people, such that you would cast me into a house of imprisonment?

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Jeremiah 21:7, Jeremiah 21:7, Jeremiah 38:5, Jeremiah 38:24, Jeremiah 38:27

18Where are your prophets, who were prophesying to you, and who were saying: ‘The king of Babylon will not overwhelm you and this land?’

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Acts 25:8, John 10:32, Acts 25:8, John 10:32, Daniel 6:22

19Now therefore, listen, I beg you, my lord the king. Let my petition prevail in your sight. And do not send me back into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”

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Jeremiah 2:28, Jeremiah 28:10, Jeremiah 28:17, Jeremiah 2:28, Jeremiah 28:10

20Then king Zedekiah instructed that Jeremiah be confined to the vestibule of the prison, and that they should give him a twist of bread daily, along with stew, until all the bread in the city had been consumed. And Jeremiah remained at the entrance of the prison.

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Jeremiah 36:7, Jeremiah 36:7, Jeremiah 38:6, Jeremiah 38:9, Jeremiah 38:26