Jeremiah 38:6

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Summary

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

Took

Jeremiah 37:21

Psalm 109:5

Luke 3:19

Into

Hebrews 10:36

Hammelech

Jeremiah 36:26

And they

Jeremiah 38:11

And in

General references

Jeremiah 36:5

Jeremiah 38:25

Lamentations 3:55

Bible References

Took

Then King Zedekiah gave commandment, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guardhouse and gave him a loaf of bread daily from the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guardhouse.

Thus they have

repaid me evil for good

And hatred for my love.

But when Herod the tetrarch was reprimanded by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the wicked things which Herod had done,

Into

For Jeremiah had come into the

dungeon, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.

I called on Your name, O Lord,
Out of the lowest pit.

and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

Hammelech

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the Lord hid them.

And they

So Ebed-melech took the men under his authority and went into the king’s palace to a place beneath the storeroom and took from there worn-out clothes and worn-out rags and let them down by ropes into the cistern to Jeremiah.

And in

‘Then behold, all of the women who have been left in the palace of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon; and those women will say,
“Your close friends
Have misled and overpowered you;
While your feet were sunk in the mire,
They turned back.”

and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.

I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, and a

flood overflows me.

My enemies without cause
Hunted me down like a bird;

As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you,
I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

General references

Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am

restricted; I cannot go into the house of the Lord.

But if the officials hear that I have talked with you and come to you and say to you, ‘Tell us now what you said to the king and what the king said to you; do not hide it from us and we will not put you to death,’

I called on Your name, O Lord,
Out of the lowest pit.