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Jeremiah

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1 And king Zedeki­ah the son of Josi­ah reigned in­stead of Co­ni­ah the son of Je­hoiakim, whom Neb­uchadrez­zar king of Baby­lon made king in the land of Ju­dah. 2 But nei­ther he, nor his ser­vants, nor the peo­ple of the land, did hear­ken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremi­ah. 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 unto the LORD our God for us. 4 Now Jeremi­ah came in and went out among the peo­ple: for they had not put him into prison. 5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that be­sieged Jerusalem heard tid­ings of them, they de­part­ed from Jerusalem. 6 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremi­ah, say­ing, 7 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Is­rael; Thus shall ye say to the king of Ju­dah, that sent you unto me to en­quire of me; Be­hold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall re­turn to Egypt into their own land. 8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire. 9 Thus saith the LORD; De­ceive not your­selves, say­ing, The Chaldeans shall sure­ly de­part from us: for they shall not de­part. 10 For though ye had smit­ten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there re­mained but wound­ed men among them, yet should they rise up ev­ery man in his tent, and burn this city with fire. 11 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was bro­ken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, 12 Then Jeremi­ah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Ben­jamin, to sep­a­rate him­self thence in the midst of the peo­ple. 13 And when he was in the gate of Ben­jamin, a cap­tain of the ward was there, whose name was Ir­i­jah, the son of Shelemi­ah, the son of Hana­ni­ah; and he took Jeremi­ah the prophet, say­ing, Thou fall­est away to the Chaldeans. 14 Then said Jeremi­ah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hear­kened not to him: so Ir­i­jah took Jeremi­ah, and brought him to the princes. 15 Where­fore the princes were wroth with Jeremi­ah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison. 16 When Jeremi­ah was en­tered into the dun­geon, and into the cab­ins, and Jeremi­ah had re­mained there many days; 17 Then Zedeki­ah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him se­cret­ly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremi­ah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be de­liv­ered into the hand of the king of Baby­lon. 18 More­over Jeremi­ah said unto king Zedeki­ah, What have I of­fend­ed against thee, or against thy ser­vants, or against this peo­ple, that ye have put me in prison? 19 Where are now your prophets which proph­e­sied unto you, say­ing, The king of Baby­lon shall not come against you, nor against this land? 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. 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 bak­ers' street, un­til all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremi­ah re­mained in the court of the prison.