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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2But he and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet with the message, “Please pray to the LORD our God for us!” |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet: |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you, will go back to its own land of Egypt. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.” |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11When the Chaldean army withdrew from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his portion there among the people. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14“That is a lie,” Jeremiah replied. “I am not deserting to the Chaldeans!” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and took him to the officials. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?” “There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.” |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.” |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard. |
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