Verse 17
Jeremiah 37:17
Literal Standard Version
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and King Zedekiah sends, and takes him, and the king asks him in his house in secret, and says, “Is there a word from YHWH?” And Jeremiah says, “There is,” and he says, “You are given into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּשְׁלַח֩ הַ/מֶּ֨לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּ֜הוּ וַ/יִּקָּחֵ֗/הוּ וַ/יִּשְׁאָלֵ֨/הוּ הַ/מֶּ֤לֶךְ בְּ/בֵית/וֹ֙ בַּ/סֵּ֔תֶר וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר הֲ/יֵ֥שׁ דָּבָ֖ר מֵ/אֵ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר יִרְמְיָ֨הוּ֙ יֵ֔שׁ וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר בְּ/יַ֥ד מֶֽלֶךְ בָּבֶ֖ל תִּנָּתֵֽן
English Translation
And King Zedekiah sent for him and took him, and the king questioned him in his house privately and said, "Is there a word from the Lord?" And Jeremiah said, "There is," and he said, "You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon."
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Chapter 37 Context
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And King Zedekiah son of Josiah reigns instead of Coniah son of Jehoiakim whom Nebuchadnezzar king o...
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and he has not listened—he, and his servants, and the people of the land—to the words of YHWH that H...
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And Zedekiah the king sends Jehucal son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest, to J...
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And Jeremiah is coming in and going out in the midst of the people (and they have not put him in the...
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and the force of Pharaoh has come out of Egypt, and the Chaldeans who are laying siege against Jerus...
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And there is a word of YHWH to Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
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“Thus said YHWH, God (Elohim) of Israel: Thus you say to the king of Judah who is sending you to Me,...
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and the Chaldeans have turned back and fought against this city, and captured it, and burned it with...
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Thus said YHWH: Do not lift up your souls, saying, The Chaldeans surely go from off us, for they do...
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for though you had struck all the force of the Chaldeans who are fighting with you, and there were l...
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And it has come to pass, in the going up of the force of the Chaldeans from off Jerusalem, because o...
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that Jeremiah goes out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin, to receive a portion there in t...
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And it comes to pass, he is at the Gate of Benjamin, and there is a master of the ward, and his name...
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And Jeremiah says, “Falsehood! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans”; and he has not listened to him,...
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and the heads are angry against Jeremiah, and have struck him, and put him in the prison-house—the h...
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When Jeremiah has entered into the house of the dungeon, and to the cells, then Jeremiah dwells ther...
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and King Zedekiah sends, and takes him, and the king asks him in his house in secret, and says, “Is...
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And Jeremiah says to King Zedekiah, “What have I sinned against you, and against your servants, and...
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And where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon does not come in agai...
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And now, please listen, O my lord the king; please let my supplication fall before you, and do not c...
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And King Zedekiah commands, and they commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, also to give a ca...
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