These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Jeremiah 37
Tanakh 21 verses
- 1 And Zedekiah the son of reigned as , instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar of made in the land of .
- 2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of , which He spoke by the .
- 3 And Zedekiah the sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and the son of Maaseiah the , to the , saying: ‘Pray now unto our for us.’
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Now came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.
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And Pharaoh’s army was come forth out of ; and when the Chaldeans that besieged heard tidings of them, they broke up from .
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- 6 Then came the of unto the , saying:
- 7 Thus saith , the of : Thus shall ye say to the of , that sent you unto Me to inquire of Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to into their own land.
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And the Chaldeans shall return, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
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Thus saith : Deceive not yourselves, saying: The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.
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- 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 would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.’
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And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from for of Pharaoh’s army,
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- 12 then went forth out of to go into the land of , to receive his portion there, in the midst of the people.
- 13 And when he was in the gate of , a captain of the ward was there, whose was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on the , saying: ‘Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.’
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Then said : ‘It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans’; but he hearkened not to him; so Irijah laid hold on , and brought him to the princes.
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And the princes were wroth with , and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
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Jeremiah 38:26 2 Chronicles 18:26 Genesis 39:20 Jeremiah 26:16 Jeremiah 20:1-3 2 Chronicles 16:10 Matthew 21:35 Acts 5:18 Matthew 26:67-68 Jeremiah 38:6 Luke 22:64 Acts 23:2-3 Acts 5:40 Luke 20:10-11 2 Corinthians 11:23-27 Hebrews 11:36-38 Acts 16:22-24 Matthew 23:34 Jeremiah 37:20 Acts 12:4-6 Acts 5:28 Revelation 2:10 John 18:22 -
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When was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and had remained there many days;
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then Zedekiah the sent, and fetched him; and the asked him secretly in his house, and said: ‘Is there any from ?’ And said: ‘There is.’ He said also: ‘Thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the of .’
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- 18 Moreover said unto Zedekiah: ‘Wherein have I sinned against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
- 19 Where now are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying: The of shall not come against you, nor against this land?
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And now , I pray thee, O my lord the : let my supplication, I pray thee, be presented before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of the scribe, lest I die there.’
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Then Zedekiah the commanded, and they committed into the court of the guard, and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus remained in the court of the guard.
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Jeremiah 38:28 Jeremiah 38:13 Jeremiah 52:6 Jeremiah 38:9 Jeremiah 32:2 2 Kings 25:3 Isaiah 33:16 Psalm 33:18-19 Job 5:20 Lamentations 2:19-20 Proverbs 21:1 Acts 28:30 Psalm 37:3 Acts 24:27 Jeremiah 32:8 Matthew 6:33 1 Kings 17:4-6 Proverbs 16:7 Acts 28:16 Jeremiah 39:14-15 Deuteronomy 28:52-57 Ephesians 4:1 Acts 12:5 Lamentations 2:11-12 Psalm 34:9-10 Lamentations 5:10 Lamentations 4:4-5 Psalm 37:19 Ephesians 6:20 2 Timothy 1:8 Lamentations 4:9-10 2 Timothy 2:9