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6 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
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Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:
7 "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Thus you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: "Behold, Pharaoh's army which has come out for your assistance is going to return to its own land of Egypt.
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“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of me, ‘Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to support you, will go back to its own land, to Egypt.
8 "The Chaldeans will also return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire."'
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Then the Babylonians will return and attack this city; they will capture it and burn it down.’
9 "Thus says the LORD , 'Do not deceive yourselves, saying, "The Chaldeans will surely go away from us," for they will not go.
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“This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves, thinking, ‘The Babylonians will surely leave us.’ They will not!
10 'For even if you had defeated the entire army of Chaldeans who were fighting against you, and there were only wounded men left among them, each man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.' "
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Even if you were to defeat the entire Babylonian army that is attacking you and only wounded men were left in their tents, they would come out and burn this city down.”
11 Now it happened when the army of the Chaldeans had lifted the siege from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's army,
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After the Babylonian army had withdrawn from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh’s army,
12 that Jeremiah went out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin in order to take possession of some property there among the people.
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Jeremiah started to leave the city to go to the territory of Benjamin to get his share of the property among the people there.
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 arrested Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are going over to the Chaldeans!"
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But when he reached the Benjamin Gate, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, arrested him and said, “You are deserting to the Babylonians!”
14 But Jeremiah said, "A lie! I am not going over to the Chaldeans "; yet he would not listen to him. So Irijah arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.
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“That’s not true!” Jeremiah said. “I am not deserting to the Babylonians.” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah 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 .
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They were angry with Jeremiah and had him beaten and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary, which they had made into a prison.
16 For Jeremiah had come into the dungeon, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.
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Jeremiah was put into a vaulted cell in a dungeon, where he remained a long time.
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