Verse 5
Jeremiah 38:5
Literal Standard Version
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And King Zedekiah says, “Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not able to do anything against you.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ הַ/מֶּ֣לֶךְ צִדְקִיָּ֔הוּ הִנֵּה ה֖וּא בְּ/יֶדְ/כֶ֑ם כִּֽי אֵ֣ין הַ/מֶּ֔לֶךְ יוּכַ֥ל אֶתְ/כֶ֖ם דָּבָֽר
English Translation
And the king Zedekiah said, "Behold, he is in your hand, for the king cannot do anything against you."
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Chapter 38 Context
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And Shephatiah son of Mattan, and Gedaliah son of Pashhur, and Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur s...
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“Thus said YHWH: He who is remaining in this city dies, by sword, by famine, and by pestilence, and...
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Thus said YHWH: This city is certainly given into the hand of the force of the king of Babylon, and...
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And the heads say to the king, “Now let this man be put to death, because that he is making feeble t...
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And King Zedekiah says, “Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not able to do anything against...
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And they take Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malchiah son of the king, that is in the court...
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And Ebed-Melech the Cushite, a eunuch who is in the king’s house, hears that they have put Jeremiah...
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and Ebed-Melech goes forth from the king’s house, and speaks to the king, saying,
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“My lord, O king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom...
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And the king commands Ebed-Melech the Cushite, saying, “Take with you thirty men from here, and you...
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And Ebed-Melech takes the men with him, and enters the house of the king, to the place of the treasu...
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And Ebed-Melech the Cushite says to Jeremiah, “Now put the worn-out pieces of cloth and rags under y...
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and they draw Jeremiah out with cords, and bring him up out of the pit, and Jeremiah dwells in the c...
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And King Zedekiah sends, and takes Jeremiah the prophet to him, to the third entrance that is in the...
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And Jeremiah says to Zedekiah, “When I declare it to you, do you not surely put me to death? And whe...
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And King Zedekiah swears to Jeremiah in secret, saying, “YHWH lives, He who made this soul for us, I...
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And Jeremiah says to Zedekiah, “Thus said YHWH, God (Elohim) of Hosts, God (Elohim) of Israel: If yo...
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And if you do not go forth to the heads of the king of Babylon, then this city has been given into t...
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And King Zedekiah says to Jeremiah, “I am fearing the Jews who have fallen to the Chaldeans, lest th...
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And Jeremiah says, “They do not give you up; please listen to the voice of YHWH, to that which I am...
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And if you are refusing to go forth, this is the thing that YHWH has shown me:
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That, behold, all the women who have been left in the house of the king of Judah are brought forth t...
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And all your wives and your sons are brought forth to the Chaldeans, and you do not escape from thei...
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And Zedekiah says to Jeremiah, “Let no man know of these words, and you do not die;
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and when the heads hear that I have spoken with you, and they have come to you, and have said to you...
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then you have said to them, I am causing my supplication to fall before the king, not to cause me to...
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And all the heads come to Jeremiah, and ask him, and he declares to them according to all these word...
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and Jeremiah dwells in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem has been captured, and h...
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