Jeremiah 37:20

Your Majesty, please listen, and accept my plea for mercy. Do not return me to the scribe Jonathan's house, or I will die there.

Jeremiah 36:7

Maybe their prayers will come into Jehovah's presence, and they will turn from their evil ways. Jehovah has threatened these people with his terrifying anger and fury.

Jeremiah 26:15

But if you put me to death, you and everyone else in Jerusalem will be guilty of murdering an innocent man. This is because everything I spoke came from Jehovah.

Jeremiah 38:6-9

So they took me and let me down by ropes into Prince Malchiah's well, which was in the palace courtyard. There was no water in the well, only mud, and I sank down in it.

Jeremiah 38:26

Just tell them you were begging me not to send you back to prison to die there.

Acts 23:16-22

Hearing about the ambush, Paul's sister's son entered the barracks and reported to Paul.

Acts 25:10-11

I stand at Caesar's court, Paul replied, where I ought to be judged. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you are finding out.

Acts 28:18-19

They questioned me and were ready to set me free, for they found me not guilty of any crime deserving death.

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Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

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Jeremiah 26:15
But if you put me to death, you and everyone else in Jerusalem will be guilty of murdering an innocent man. This is because everything I spoke came from Jehovah.
Jeremiah 38:6
So they took me and let me down by ropes into Prince Malchiah's well, which was in the palace courtyard. There was no water in the well, only mud, and I sank down in it.
Acts 23:16
Hearing about the ambush, Paul's sister's son entered the barracks and reported to Paul.
Acts 25:10
I stand at Caesar's court, Paul replied, where I ought to be judged. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you are finding out.
Acts 28:18
They questioned me and were ready to set me free, for they found me not guilty of any crime deserving death.

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Jeremiah 38:26
Just tell them you were begging me not to send you back to prison to die there.