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 command and they committed Jeremiah into the guard-court, and said that there should be given him a cake of bread daily, out of the bakers street, until all the bread out of the city should be spent, So Jeremiah remained in the guard-court.

Yea they have returned unto me - Evil for good; and, Hatred for my love.

But, Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias, the wife of his brother, and concerning all the wicked things Herod had done,

Into

When Jeremiah had entered into the dungeon-house and into the cells, and Jeremiah, had remained there many days,

I have called upon thy Name, O Yahweh, out of the dungeon below;

who, a charge like this receiving, thrust them into the inner prison, and, their feet, made he fast in the stocks.

On every side, pressed hard, but not hemmed in, without a way, but not without a by-way,

For, of endurance, ye have need, in order that, the will of God having done, Ye may bear away, the promise.

Hammelech

Then did the king command Jerahmeel son of the king, and Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to fetch Baruch the scribe, and Jeremiah the prophet, - but Yahweh had hid them.

And they

So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence pieces of cast-off clothes, and old rags, - and let them down unto Jeremiah in the dungeon with the ropes.

And in

behold, then, all the women that are left in the house of the king of Judah, brought forth unto the princes of the king of Babylon, - and, these very women, saying, The men thou wast wont to salute, have goaded thee on and prevailed upon thee, - Thy foot having sunk in the mire, they have turned away back.

and took him, and cast him into the pit, but the pit, was empty, there was in it no water.

So he brought me up, Out of the destroying pit, Out of the swampy mire, - And set, upon a cliff, my feet, Making firm my steps:

I have sunk in deep swamp, Where there is no place to stand, I have come into abysses of waters, Where a flood hath overflowed me;

They, have laid snares, for me as a bird, who are mine enemies without cause:

As for thee also, - By the blood of thy covenant, have I sent forth thy prisoners out of a pit, wherein is no water.

General references

Then did Jeremiah command Baruch, saying, - I, am hindered, I cannot enter the house of Yahweh;

But, when the princes hear that I have spoken with thee and they come in unto thee and say unto thee - Do tell us we pray thee what thou didst speak unto the king, do not hide it from us so will we not put thee to death, - and what spake the king unto, thee?

I have called upon thy Name, O Yahweh, out of the dungeon below;