Jeremiah 37:21

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Summary

Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Into the

Jeremiah 32:2

Jeremiah 38:13

And that

Until

Lamentations 5:10

Thus

General references

Jeremiah 38:28

Bible References

Into the

Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was round Jerusalem, shutting it in: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, in the house of the king of Judah.

So pulling Jeremiah up with the cords they got him out of the water-hole: and Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.

And that

The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there.

When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

See, the eye of the Lord is on those in whose hearts is the fear of him, on those whose hope is in his mercy;

Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything.

Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.

The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.

He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

Until

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have put into the water-hole; and he will come to his death in the place where he is through need of food: for there is no more bread in the town.

In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

Now on the ninth day of the fourth month, the store of food in the town was almost gone, so that there was no food for the people of the land.

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

Thus

So pulling Jeremiah up with the cords they got him out of the water-hole: and Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.

And they sent and took Jeremiah out of the place of the watchmen, and gave him into the care of Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him to his house: so he was living among the people.

So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him.

But after two years Porcius Festus took the place of Felix, who, desiring to have the approval of the Jews, kept Paul in chains.

And when we came into Rome, they let Paul have a house for himself and the armed man who kept watch over him.

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.

Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God;

In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.

General references

So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen till the day when Jerusalem was taken.