Jeremiah 38:11-21

11 So Ebed-Melek took the men with him and went to a room under the treasury in the palace. He took some old rags and worn-out clothes from there and let them down with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.
12 Ebed-Melek the Cushite said to Jeremiah, “Put these old rags and worn-out clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,
13 and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

Zedekiah Questions Jeremiah Again

14 Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and had him brought to the third entrance to the temple of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” the king said to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”
15 Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I give you an answer, will you not kill me? Even if I did give you counsel, you would not listen to me.”
16 But King Zedekiah swore this oath secretly to Jeremiah: “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us breath, I will neither kill you nor hand you over to those who want to kill you.”
17 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, your life will be spared and this city will not be burned down; you and your family will live.
18 But if you will not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, this city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians and they will burn it down; you yourself will not escape from them.’ ”
19 King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have gone over to the Babylonians, for the Babylonians may hand me over to them and they will mistreat me.”
20 “They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the LORD by doing what I tell you. Then it will go well with you, and your life will be spared.
21 But if you refuse to surrender, this is what the LORD has revealed to me:

Cross References 17

  • 1. S Joshua 2:15
  • 2. S Jeremiah 37:21
  • 3. S Jeremiah 37:3
  • 4. S 1 Samuel 3:17
  • 5. Jeremiah 37:17
  • 6. Isaiah 42:5; Isaiah 57:16
  • 7. ver 4
  • 8. Jeremiah 27:8
  • 9. 2 Kings 24:12; S Jeremiah 21:9
  • 10. ver 3; Jeremiah 34:3
  • 11. S Jeremiah 37:8
  • 12. S Jeremiah 24:8; S Jeremiah 32:4
  • 13. Isaiah 51:12; John 12:42
  • 14. Jeremiah 39:9; Jeremiah 52:15
  • 15. Jeremiah 11:4
  • 16. S Deuteronomy 5:33; Jeremiah 40:9
  • 17. Isaiah 55:3
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