Discovery Box| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 38:22 |
| All the women who are left in the royal palace of Judah will be led out to the officers of the king of Babylon. They will taunt you saying,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">‘Your trusted friends misled you;p> <p class="poetry">they have gotten the best of you.p> <p class="poetry">Now that your feet are stuck in the mud,p> <p class="poetry">they have turned their backs on you.’<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 38:27 |
| All the officials did indeed come and question Jeremiah.<n id="1" /> He told them exactly what the king had instructed him to say.<n id="2" /> They stopped questioning him any further because no one had actually heard their conversation.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 39:4 |
| When King Zedekiah of Judah and all his soldiers saw them, they tried to escape. They departed from the city during the night. They took a path through the king’s garden and passed out through the gate between the two walls.<n id="1" /> Then they headed for the Jordan Valley.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 39:9 |
| Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard,<n id="1" /> took captive the rest of the people who were left in the city. He carried them off to Babylon along with the people who had deserted to him.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 39:10 |
| But he<n id="1" /> left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing. He gave them fields and vineyards at that time.p> |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 40:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Jeremiah<n id="1" /> after Nebuzaradan the captain of the royal guard had set him free at Ramah.<n id="2" /> He had taken him there in chains<n id="3" /> along with all the people from Jerusalem<n id="4" /> and Judah who were being carried off to exile to Babylon. |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 40:12 |
| So all these Judeans returned to the land of Judah from the places where they had been scattered. They came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. Thus they harvested a large amount of wine and dates and figs.<n id="1" />p> |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 41:18 |
| They were afraid of what the Babylonians might do<n id="1" /> because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the country.p> |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 42:2 |
| They said to him, “Please grant our request<n id="1" /> and pray to the <sc>Lordsc> your God for all those of us who are still left alive here.<n id="2" /> For, as you yourself can see, there are only a few of us left out of the many there were before.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 42:4 |
| The prophet Jeremiah answered them, “Agreed!<n id="1" /> I will indeed pray to the <sc>Lordsc> your God as you have asked. I will tell you everything the <sc>Lordsc> replies in response to you.<n id="2" /> I will not keep anything back from you.” |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 42:5 |
| They answered Jeremiah, “May the <sc>Lordsc> be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not do just as<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> sends you to tell us to do. |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 42:10 |
| ‘If you will just stay<n id="1" /> in this land, I will build you up. I will not tear you down. I will firmly plant you.<n id="2" /> I will not uproot you. For I am filled with sorrow because of the disaster that I have brought on you. |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 42:11 |
| Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon whom you now fear.<n id="1" /> Do not be afraid of him because I will be with you to save you and to rescue you from his power. I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!<n id="2" /> |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 42:14 |
| You must not say, ‘No, we will not stay. Instead we will go and live in the land of Egypt where we will not face war,<n id="1" /> or hear the enemy’s trumpet calls,<n id="2" /> or starve for lack of food.’<n id="3" /> |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 42:20 |
| You are making a fatal mistake.<n id="1" /> For you sent me to the <sc>Lordsc> your God and asked me, ‘Pray to the <sc>Lordsc> our God for us. Tell us what the <sc>Lordsc> our God says and we will do it.’<n id="2" /> |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 43:1 |
| <p class="bodytext">Jeremiah finished telling all the people all these things the <sc>Lordsc> their God had sent him to tell them.<n id="1" /> |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 43:6 |
| They also led off all the men, women, children, and royal princesses<n id="1" /> that Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, had left with Gedaliah,<n id="2" /> the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan. This included the prophet Jeremiah and Baruch son of Neriah. |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 43:10 |
| Then tell them,<n id="1" /> ‘The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="2" /> says, “I will bring<n id="3" /> my servant<n id="4" /> King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will set his throne over these stones which I<n id="5" /> have buried. He will pitch his royal tent<n id="6" /> over them. |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 43:12 |
| He will set fire<n id="1" /> to the temples of the gods of Egypt. He will burn their gods or carry them off as captives.<n id="2" /> He will pick Egypt clean like a shepherd picks the lice from his clothing.<n id="3" /> He will leave there unharmed.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.28936305555556) | Jer 44:2 |
| “The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="1" /> says, ‘You have seen all the disaster I brought on Jerusalem<n id="2" /> and all the towns of Judah. Indeed, they now lie in ruins and are deserted.<n id="3" /> |
