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

And king Zedekiah will command, and they will commit Jeremiah to the enclosure of the prison, and giving to him a round of bread for the day from the street of the baker's, till all the bread was consumed out of the city. And Jeremiah dwelt in the enclosure of the prison.

And they will set against me evil instead of good, and hatred for my love.

And Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod did,

Into

For Jeremiah came to the house of the pit, and to the vaults, and Jeremiah sat there many days.

I called thy name, O Jehovah, in the pit underneath.

Who, having received such an order, cast them into the inner prison, and placed their feet firmly in wood.

Being pressed in every thing, but not straightened; being at a loss, but not utterly perplexed;

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Hammelech

And the king commanded Jerahmeel, son of the king, and Seraiah, son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; and Jehovah will hide them..

And they

And the king's servant will take the men in his hand and go to the house of the king under the store-house, and he will take from thence old torn rags, and rags rubbed small, and he will cast them to Jeremiah into the pit with cords.

And in

And behold, all the women which were left in the house of the king of Judah being brought forth to the chiefs of the king of Babel, and they say, The men of thy peace enticed thee, and they prevailed against thee: they sank thy foot in mire, they turned away back.

And they will take him and will throw him into the pit; and the pit empty; water not in it

And he will bring me up from the pit of destruction, from the clay of mire, and he will set my feet upon a rock, preparing my goings.

I sank in mire of depth, and no standing: I came into depths of waters and the floods overwhelmed me.

Hunting, they hunted me as a bird, mine enemies, gratuitously.

Also thou by the blood of thy covenant I sent forth thy bound ones from the pit no water in it

General references

And Jeremiah will command Baruch, saying, I being shut up shall not be able to go into the house of Jehovah:

And if the chiefs shall hear that I spake with thee, and they came to thee, and said to thee, Announce now to us what thou spakest to the king; thou shalt not hide from us, and we will not put thee to death; and what said the king to thee:

I called thy name, O Jehovah, in the pit underneath.