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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 NIV</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">NIV</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 International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/jeremiah/37.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Jeremiah in Prison</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 was made king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he reigned in place of Jehoiachin <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew Koniah, a variant of Jehoiachin">a</a></sup></span> son of Jehoiakim. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Neither he nor his attendants nor the people of the land paid any attention to the words the <span class="name">Lord</span> had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>King Zedekiah, however, sent Jehukal son of Shelemiah with the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to Jeremiah the prophet with this message: “Please pray to the <span class="name">Lord</span> our God for us.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Pharaoh’s army had marched out of Egypt, and when the Babylonians <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Chaldeans; also in verses 8, 9, 13 and 14">b</a></sup></span> who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span> came to Jeremiah the prophet: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of me, ‘Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to support you, will go back to its own land, to Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then the Babylonians will return and attack this city; they will capture it and burn it down.’</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 <span class="name">Lord</span> says: Do not deceive yourselves, thinking, ‘The Babylonians will surely leave us.’ They will not! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Even if you were to defeat the entire Babylonian <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Chaldean; also in verse 11">c</a></sup></span> army that is attacking you and only wounded men were left in their tents, they would come out and burn this city down.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>After the Babylonian army had withdrawn from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh’s army, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Jeremiah started to leave the city to go to the territory of Benjamin to get his share of the property among the people there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But when he reached the Benjamin Gate, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, arrested him and said, “You are deserting to the Babylonians!”</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 said. “I am not deserting to the Babylonians.” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and brought him to the officials. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They were angry with Jeremiah and had him beaten and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary, which they had made into a prison.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Jeremiah was put into a vaulted cell in a dungeon, where he remained a long time. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then King Zedekiah sent for him and had him brought to the palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there any word from the <span class="name">Lord</span>?”</p><p class="reg">“Yes,” Jeremiah replied, “you will be delivered into the hands of 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 said to King Zedekiah, “What crime have I committed against you or your attendants or this people, that you have put me in prison? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, ‘The king of Babylon will not attack you or this land’? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jeremiah/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But now, my lord the king, please listen. Let me bring my petition before you: Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, or 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>King Zedekiah then gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread from the street of the bakers each day until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew <i>Koniah,</i> a variant of <i>Jehoiachin</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>Chaldeans</i>; also in verses 8, 9, 13 and 14</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>Chaldean</i>; also in verse 11</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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