'Confined' in the Bible
The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard at the palace of the king of Judah
where Zedekiah had confined him. Zedekiah had said, "Why did you prophesy and say these things? You said, "This is what the LORD says: "I'm about to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
While he was still confined in the guard’s courtyard, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time:
Jeremiah instructed Baruch, "I'm confined and can't go to the LORD's Temple.
For even if you had defeated the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained only the wounded men among them, yet they would rise up, every man confined in his tent, and burn down this city with fire.’”
So they pulled Jeremiah up from the cistern with ropes. Jeremiah, however, still remained confined to the courtyard of the guardhouse.
Now the word of the Lord had come to Jeremiah when he was confined in the guard’s courtyard:
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