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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</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/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="/bmc//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="/jeremiah/">Jeremiah</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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/jeremiah/37.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/37.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/jeremiah/37.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/37.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/37.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/37.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/37.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> son of Jehoiakim. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But he and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet. <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet with the message, “Please pray to the LORD our God for us!” <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Pharaoh’s army had left Egypt, and when the Chaldeans<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report, they withdrew from Jerusalem. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet: <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you, will go back to its own land of Egypt. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not! <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.” <A name="12"></a><p class="hdg">Jeremiah Imprisoned<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>When the Chaldean army withdrew from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his portion there<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> among the people. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!” <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“That is a lie,” Jeremiah replied. “I am not deserting to the Chaldeans!” <p class="reg"> But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and took him to the officials. <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?” <p class="reg">“There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.” <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison? <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’? <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <i>Coniah</i><span class="thin"> </span> is a variant of <i>Jehoiachin</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>Jehucal</i><span class="thin"> </span> is a variant of <i>Jucal</i><span class="thin"> </span>; see <a href="../jeremiah/38.htm">Jeremiah 38:1</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> That is, the Babylonians; also in verses 8, 9, 13, and 14<br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Literally <i>to divide from there</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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