Verse 15
Jeremiah 38:15
Bible in Basic English
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Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I give you the answer to your question, will you not certainly put me to death? and if I make a suggestion to you, you will not give it a hearing.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר יִרְמְיָ֨הוּ֙ אֶל צִדְקִיָּ֔הוּ כִּ֚י אַגִּ֣יד לְ/ךָ֔ הֲ/ל֖וֹא הָמֵ֣ת תְּמִיתֵ֑/נִי וְ/כִי֙ אִיעָ֣צְ/ךָ֔ לֹ֥א תִשְׁמַ֖ע אֵלָֽ/י
English Translation
And Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Indeed, I will tell you; will you not surely put me to death? And if I advise you, you will not listen to me."
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Chapter 38 Context
1
Now it came to the ears of Shephatiah, the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah, the son of Pashhur, and Juca...
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These are the words of the Lord: Whoever goes on living in this town will come to his death by the s...
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The Lord has said, This town will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babyl...
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Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the...
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5
Then Zedekiah the king said, See, he is in your hands: for the king was not able to do anything agai...
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6
So they took Jeremiah and put him into the water-hole of Malchiah, the king's son, in the place of t...
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Now it came to the ears of Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an unsexed servant in the king's house, that t...
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And Ebed-melech went out from the king's house and said to the king,
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My lord the king, these men have done evil in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they...
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10
Then the king gave orders to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take with you three men from here an...
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11
So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went into the house of the king, to the place where the clo...
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12
And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put these bits of old cloth under your arms under th...
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13
So pulling Jeremiah up with the cords they got him out of the water-hole: and Jeremiah was kept in t...
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14
Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and took him into the rulers' doorway in the house...
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15
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I give you the answer to your question, will you not certainly pu...
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So King Zedekiah gave his oath to Jeremiah secretly, saying, By the living Lord, who gave us our lif...
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17
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, These are the words of the Lord, the God (Elohim) of armies, the God...
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18
But if you do not go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then this town will be given into the ha...
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19
And King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, I am troubled on account of the Jews who have gone over to the C...
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But Jeremiah said, They will not give you up: be guided now by the word of the Lord as I have given...
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But if you do not go out, this is what the Lord has made clear to me:
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See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Ba...
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And they will take all your wives and your children out to the Chaldaeans: and you will not get away...
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Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, Let no man have knowledge of these words, and you will not be put to...
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But if it comes to the ears of the rulers that I have been talking with you, and they come and say t...
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Then you are to say to them, I made my request to the king, that he would not send me back to my dea...
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Then all the rulers came to Jeremiah, questioning him: and he gave them an answer in the words the k...
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So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen till the day when Jerusalem was taken.
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