7
"Thussays the LORDGod of Israel, 'Thus you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: "Behold, Pharaoh'sarmy which has come out for your assistance is going to return to its own land of Egypt.
10
'For even if you had defeated the entirearmy of Chaldeans who were fightingagainst you, and there were only woundedmenleft among them, eachman in his tent, they would rise up and burnthiscity with fire.' "
13
While he was at the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah the son of Hananiah was there; and he arrestedJeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are goingover to the Chaldeans!"
14
But Jeremiahsaid, "A lie! I am not goingover to the Chaldeans "; yet he would not listen to him. So IrijaharrestedJeremiah and brought him to the officials.
15
Then the officials were angry at Jeremiah and beat him, and they put him in jail* in the house of Jonathan the scribe, which they had made into the prison*.