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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.
Hammelech
And they
General references
Bible References
Took
Jeremiah 37:21
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.
Psalm 109:5 Thus they have repaid me evil for good
Andhatred for my love.
And
Luke 3:19
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
Jeremiah 37:16
For Jeremiah had come into the dungeon, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.
Lamentations 3:55 I called on Your name, O Lord,
Out of the lowest pit.
Out of the lowest pit.
Acts 16:24 and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
2 Corinthians 4:8
we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;
Hebrews 10:36
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
Hammelech
Jeremiah 36:26
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
Jeremiah 38:11
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
Jeremiah 38:22
‘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.”
“
Have misled and overpowered you;
While your feet were sunk in the mire,
They turned back.”
Genesis 37:24
and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.
Psalm 40:2 He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,
AndHe set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.
And
Psalm 69:2 I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, and aflood overflows me.
I have come into deep waters, and a
Lamentations 3:52 My enemies without cause
Hunted me downlike a bird;
Hunted me down
Zechariah 9:11 As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you,
I have set yourprisoners free from the waterless pit.
I have set your
General references
Jeremiah 36:5
Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted; I cannot go into the house of the Lord.
Jeremiah 38:25
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,’
Lamentations 3:55 I called on Your name, O Lord,
Out of the lowest pit.
Out of the lowest pit.