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1Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchiah heard how Jeremiah was addressing all the people; he was saying:

2These are the words of the LORD: Whoever remains in this city will die by sword, famine, or pestilence, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldaeans will survive; he will escape with his life.

3These are the words of the LORD: This city will assuredly be delivered into the power of the king of Babylon's army, and be captured.

4The officers said to the king, “This man ought to be put to death. By talking in this way he is demoralizing the soldiers left in the city and indeed the rest of the people. It is not the people's welfare he seeks but their ruin.”

5King Zedekiah said, “He is in your hands; the king is powerless against you.”

6So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern in the court of the guardhouse, letting him down with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

7Ebed-melech the Cushite, a eunuch, who was in the palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into a cistern and he went to tell the king, who was seated at the Benjamin Gate.

8(38:7)

9“Your majesty,” he said, “these men have acted viciously in their treatment of the prophet Jeremiah. They have thrown him into a cistern, and he will die of hunger where he is, for there is no more bread in the city.”

10The king instructed Ebed-melech the Cushite to take three men with him and hoist Jeremiah out of the cistern before he perished.

11Ebed-melech went to the palace with the men and took some tattered, cast-off clothes from a storeroom and lowered them with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.

12He called to Jeremiah, “Put these old clothes under your armpits to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,

13and they pulled him up out of the cistern with the ropes. Jeremiah remained in the court of the guardhouse.

14King Zedekiah sent for the prophet Jeremiah and had him brought to the third entrance of the LORD's house. “I want to ask you something,” he said to him; “hide nothing from me.”

15Jeremiah answered, “If I speak out, you will certainly put me to death; if I offer advice, you will disregard it.”

16King Zedekiah secretly made this promise on oath to Jeremiah: “By the life of the LORD who gave us our lives, I shall not put you to death, nor shall I hand you over to these men who are seeking your life.”

17Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “These are the words of the LORD the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: If you go out and surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, you will live and this city will not be burnt down; you and your family will survive.

18If, however, you do not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, this city will fall into the hands of the Chaldaeans, who will burn it down; you yourself will not escape them.”

19The king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Judaeans who have gone over to the enemy. The Chaldaeans may give me up to them, and their treatment of me will be ruthless.”

20Jeremiah answered, “You will not be given up. If you obey the LORD in everything I tell you, all will be well with you and your life will be spared.

21But if you refuse to surrender, this is what the LORD has shown me:

22all the women left in the king of Judah's palace will be led out to the officers of the king of Babylon. Those women will say to you: ‘Your own friends have misled you and proved too strong for you; when your feet sank in the mud they turned and left you.’

23All your women and children will be led out to the Chaldaeans and you yourself will not escape; you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burnt down.”

24Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “On pain of death let no one know about this conversation.

25If the officers hear that I have been speaking with you and they come and say to you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what he said to you; hide nothing from us, and we shall not put you to death,’

26you must reply, ‘I was petitioning the king not to send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”

27The officers did all come and question Jeremiah, and he said to them just what the king had told him to say; so they left off questioning him and were none the wiser.

28Jeremiah remained in the court of the guardhouse till the day Jerusalem fell.


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