Jeremiah 37:4
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New International Version (©2011)
Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Jeremiah had not yet been imprisoned, so he could come and go among the people as he pleased.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Now Jeremiah was still going in and out among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now Jeremiah was still coming in and going out among the people, for they had not yet put him in the prison.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Jeremiah was going about his daily tasks among the people, for they had not yet put him into the prison.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Now Jeremiah was still going in and out among the people since he had not yet been put in prison.

NET Bible (©2006)
(Now Jeremiah had not yet been put in prison. So he was still free to come and go among the people as he pleased.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Jeremiah was still free to come and go among the people. The people of Jerusalem hadn't put him in prison yet.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

American King James Version
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

American Standard Version
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now Jeremias walked freely in the midst of the people, for they had not as yet cast him into prison.

Darby Bible Translation
And Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.

English Revised Version
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

World English Bible
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jeremiah is coming in and going out in the midst of the people, (and they have not put him in the prison-house),

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

37:1-10 Numbers witness the fatal effects of other men's sins, yet heedlessly step into their places, and follow the same destructive course. When in distress, we ought to desire the prayers of ministers and Christian friends. And it is common for those to desire to be prayed for, who will not be advised; yet sinners are often hardened by a pause in judgments. But if God help us not, no creature can. Whatever instruments God has determined to use, they shall do the work, though they seem unlikely.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - Now Jeremiah came in and went out, etc. Had he been a prisoner, an embassy of high officials could not, with propriety, have been sent to him (comp. ver. 17; Jeremiah 38:14).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people,.... Was at full liberty, and could go out of the city, and come in, when he pleased; or go into any part of it, and converse with the people, and prophesy to them; which he could not do in the latter part of Jehoiakim's reign, who sent persons after him and Baruch to take them, and they were obliged to hide themselves, yea, the Lord hid them, Jeremiah 36:19; but now he was under no restraint, as least as yet:

for they had not put him into prison; not yet; they afterwards did, Jeremiah 37:15.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. Jeremiah … not put … into prison—He was no longer in the prison court, as he had been (Jer 32:2; 33:1), which passages refer to the beginning of the siege, not to the time when the Chaldeans renewed the siege, after having withdrawn for a time to meet Pharaoh.

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Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah
…3And 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. 4Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison. 5Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem. …

Jeremiah 32:2 The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace of Judah.
Jeremiah 32:3 Now Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him there, saying, "Why do you prophesy as you do? You say, 'This is what the LORD says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
Jeremiah 37:15 They were angry with Jeremiah and had him beaten and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary, which they had made into a prison.