Jeremiah Imprisoned

Jeremiah 37

11 And it happened, when the army of the Chaldeans left the siege of Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, 12 that Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin to claim his property there among the people. 13 And when he was in the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there whose name was Irijah the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are defecting to the Chaldeans!" 14 Then Jeremiah said, 1 "False! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans." But he did not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the princes. 15 Therefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and they struck him i and put him in prison in the j house of Jonathan the scribe. For they had made that the prison.

16 When Jeremiah entered k the dungeon and the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days, 17 then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. The king asked him secretly in his house, and said, "Is there any word from the LORD?" And Jeremiah said, "There is." Then he said, "You shall be l delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon!" 18 Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, "What offense have I committed against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison? 19 "Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you or against this land'? 20 "Therefore please hear now, O my lord the king. Please, let my petition be accepted before you, and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there." 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah m to the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread from the bakers' street, n until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

  1. Cross References
    Jeremiah 20:2
    Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
    Matthew 21:35
    And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 39:20
    Then Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were confined. And he was there in the prison.
    2 Chronicles 16:10
    Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time.
    2 Chronicles 18:26
    "and say, 'Thus says the king: "Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction, until I return in peace." '"
    Jeremiah 38:26
    "then you shall say to them, 'I presented my request before the king, that he would not make me return to Jonathan's house to die there.'"
    Acts 5:18
    And laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 38:6
    So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the king's son, which was in the court of the prison, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire. So Jeremiah sank in the mire.
  4. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:4 - 7
    Then the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans were still encamped all around against the city. And the king went by way of the plain.
    Jeremiah 21:7
    "And afterward," says the LORD, "I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. He shall not spare them, or have pity or mercy."'
    Ezekiel 12:12
    And the prince who is among them shall bear his belongings on his shoulder at twilight and go out. They shall dig through the wall to carry them out through it. He shall cover his face, so that he cannot see the ground with his eyes.
    Ezekiel 12:13
    I will also spread My net over him, and he shall be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.
    Ezekiel 17:19 - 21
    Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: " As I live, surely My oath which he despised, and My covenant which he broke, I will recompense on his own head.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 32:2
    For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
    Jeremiah 38:13
    So they pulled Jeremiah up with ropes and lifted him out of the dungeon. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
    Jeremiah 38:28
    Now Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken. And he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
  6. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:3
    By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
    Jeremiah 38:9
    "My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon, and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is. For there is no more bread in the city."
    Jeremiah 52:6
    By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
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