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 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.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

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

Into

When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

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

Hammelech

But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.

And they

So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

And in

And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.

And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

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

General references

And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:

I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.