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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Jeremiah 37 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/37.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/37-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Jeremiah 37</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/36.htm" title="Jeremiah 36">◄</a> Jeremiah 37 <a href="../jeremiah/38.htm" title="Jeremiah 38">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/jeremiah/37.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Zedekiah Calls for Jeremiah</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Zedekiah son of Josiah succeeded Jehoiachin<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> son of Jehoiakim as the king of Judah. He was appointed by King Nebuchadnezzar<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> of Babylon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But neither King Zedekiah nor his attendants nor the people who were left in the land listened to what the LORD said through Jeremiah.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Nevertheless, King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the priest, son of Maaseiah, to ask Jeremiah, “Please pray to the LORD our God for us.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Jeremiah had not yet been imprisoned, so he could come and go among the people as he pleased.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>At this time the army of Pharaoh Hophra<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> of Egypt appeared at the southern border of Judah. When the Babylonian<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> army heard about it, they withdrew from their siege of Jerusalem.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then the LORD gave this message to Jeremiah: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: The king of Judah sent you to ask me what is going to happen. Tell him, ‘Pharaoh’s army is about to return to Egypt, though he came here to help you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the Babylonians<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> will come back and capture this city and burn it to the ground.’</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“This is what the LORD says: Do not fool yourselves into thinking that the Babylonians are gone for good. They aren’t! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Even if you were to destroy the entire Babylonian army, leaving only a handful of wounded survivors, they would still stagger from their tents and burn this city to the ground!”</p><p class="hdg">Jeremiah Is Imprisoned</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When the Babylonian army left Jerusalem because of Pharaoh’s approaching army, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Jeremiah started to leave the city on his way to the territory of Benjamin, to claim his share of the property among his relatives there.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But as he was walking through the Benjamin Gate, a sentry arrested him and said, “You are defecting to the Babylonians!” The sentry making the arrest was Irijah son of Shelemiah, grandson of Hananiah.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“That’s not true!” Jeremiah protested. “I had no intention of doing any such thing.” But Irijah wouldn’t listen, and he took Jeremiah before the officials. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They were furious with Jeremiah and had him flogged and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary. Jonathan’s house had been converted into a prison. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Jeremiah was put into a dungeon cell, where he remained for many days.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Later King Zedekiah secretly requested that Jeremiah come to the palace, where the king asked him, “Do you have any messages from the LORD?”</p><p class="reg">“Yes, I do!” said Jeremiah. “You will be defeated by the king of Babylon.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Jeremiah asked the king, “What crime have I committed? What have I done against you, your attendants, or the people that I should be imprisoned like this? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Where are your prophets now who told you the king of Babylon would not attack you or this land? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Listen, my lord the king, I beg you. Don’t send me back to the dungeon in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for I will die there.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So King Zedekiah commanded that Jeremiah not be returned to the dungeon. Instead, he was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace. The king also commanded that Jeremiah be given a loaf of fresh bread every day as long as there was any left in the city. So Jeremiah was put in the palace prison.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">37:1a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Coniah,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Jehoiachin.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">37:1b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Nebuchadrezzar,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Nebuchadnezzar.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">37:5a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">army of Pharaoh;</span><span class="ft"> see 44:30.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">37:5b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Chaldean;</span><span class="ft"> also in 37:10, 11.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">37:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Chaldeans;</span><span class="ft"> also in 37:9, 13.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">37:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">to separate from there in the midst of the people.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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