Jérémie 38:27

27 Tous les chefs vinrent auprès de Jérémie et le questionnèrent. Il leur répondit entièrement comme le roi l'avait ordonné. Ils gardèrent alors le silence et se retirèrent, car la chose ne s'était pas répandue.

Jérémie 38:27 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 38:27

Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him
After he had parted with the king, and was come back to the court of the prison; as soon as the princes had been informed of the interview between the king and the prophet, which soon came to their ears, they came in a body to him, to the court of the prison, where he was, and asked him of what passed between him and the king: and he told them according to all those words that the king had
commanded;
what he told them, no doubt, was truth; though he did not tell them all the truth; which he was not obliged to do, having no command from God, and being forbid by the king: so they left off speaking with him;
or, "were silent from him" ^F5; went away silent, not being able to disprove what he had said, or object unto it, and finding they could get nothing more out of him: for the matter was not perceived;
or, "was not heard" ^F6; though there were persons that saw the king and the prophet together, yet nobody heard anything that passed between them; and therefore Jeremiah could not be confronted in what he had said, or be charged with concealing anything.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (wnmm wvrxyw) "et tacuerunt ab eo", Pagninus, Montanus; "siluerunt", Calvin.
F6 (rbdh emvn al) "quia non auditum est verbum", Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt.

Jérémie 38:27 In-Context

25 Si les chefs apprennent que je t'ai parlé, et s'ils viennent te dire: Rapporte-nous ce que tu as dit au roi, et ce que le roi t'a dit, ne nous cache rien, et nous ne te ferons pas mourir, -

26 tu leur répondras: J'ai supplié le roi de ne pas me renvoyer dans la maison de Jonathan, de peur que je n'y meure.

27 Tous les chefs vinrent auprès de Jérémie et le questionnèrent. Il leur répondit entièrement comme le roi l'avait ordonné. Ils gardèrent alors le silence et se retirèrent, car la chose ne s'était pas répandue.

28 Jérémie resta dans la cour de la prison jusqu'au jour de la prise de Jérusalem. Lorsque Jérusalem fut prise, -