Archive THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (Jeremiah Chapter 1 to 52)

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Jeremiah 38:14 (NLT)
One day King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and had him brought to the third entrance of the LORD''s Temple. "I want to ask you something," the King said. "And don't try to hide the truth."
 
Jeremiah 38:15 (NLT)
Jeremiah said, "If I tell you the truth you will kill me. And if I give you advice you won't listen to me anyway."
 
Jeremiah 38:16 (NLT)
So King Zedekiah secretly promised him, "As surely as the LORD our Creator lives I will not kill you, or turn you over to the men who want you dead."
 
Jeremiah 38:17 (NLT)
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "This is what the LORD of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel says: "If surrender to the Babylonian officers, you and your family will live, and the city will not be burned down.
 
Jeremiah 38:18 (NLT)
But if you refuse to surrender you will not escape! This city will be handed over to the Babylonians, and they will burn it to the ground.
 
Jeremiah 38:19 (NLT)
"But I am afraid to surrender," said the king, "for the Babylonians may hand me over to the Judeans who have defected to them. And who knows what they would do to me!"
 
Jeremiah 38:20 (NLT)
Jeremiah replied, "You won't be handed over to them if you choose to obey the LORD. Your life will be spared, and all will go well for you.
 
Jeremiah 38:22 (NLT)
All the women left in your palace will be brought out and given to the offices of the Babylonian army. Then the women will taunt you saying:
'What fine friends you have!
they have betrayed and misled you.
When your feet sank in the mud,
they left you to your fate!'
 
Jeremiah 38:23 (NLT)
All your wives and children will be led out to the Babylonians, and you will not escape. You will be seized by the King of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.
 
Jeremiah 38:25 (NLT)
My officials may hear that I spoke to you, and they may say, "Tell us what were you and the King talking about. If you don't tell us, we will kill you.'
 
Jeremiah 38:26 (NLT)
If this happens, just tell them you begged me not to send you back to Jonathan's dungeon for fear you would die there.
 
Jeremiah 38:27 (NLT) - 27 Sure enough, it wasn’t long before the king’s officials came to Jeremiah and asked him why the king had called for him. But Jeremiah followed the king’s instructions, and they left without finding out the truth. No one had overheard the conversation between Jeremiah and the king.
 
Jeremiah 38:28 (NLT) - 28 And Jeremiah remained a prisoner in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.
 
Jeremiah 39:1 (NLT) - 1 In January of the ninth year of King Zedekiah’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar came with his army to besiege Jerusalem.
 
Jeremiah 39:2 (NLT) - 2 Two and a half years later, on July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign, the Babylonians broke through the wall, and the city fell.
 
Jeremiah 39:3 (NLT) - 3 All the officers of the Babylonian army came in and sat in triumph at the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer of Samgar, and Nebo-sarsekim, a chief officer, and Nergal-sharezer, the king’s adviser, and all the other officers.
 
Jeremiah 39:4 (NLT) - 4 When King Zedekiah and all the soldiers saw that the Babylonians had broken into the city, they fled. They waited for nightfall and then slipped through the gate between the two walls behind the king’s garden and headed toward the Jordan Valley.
 
Jeremiah 39:5 (NLT) - 5 But the Babylonian troops chased the king and caught him on the plains of Jericho. They took him to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who was at Riblah in the land of Hamath. There the king of Babylon pronounced judgment upon Zedekiah.
 
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