Jeremiah 38:17
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, These are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel: If you go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then you will have life, and the town will not be burned with fire, and you and your family will be kept from death:
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Jeremiah 38:17
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, These are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel: If you go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then you will have life, and the town will not be burned with fire, and you and your family will be kept from death:
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Jeremiah 38:3
The Lord has said, This town will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.
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Jeremiah 38:24
Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, Let no man have knowledge of these words, and you will not be put to death.
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Jeremiah 38:25
But if it comes to the ears of the rulers that I have been talking with you, and they come and say to you, Give us word now of what you have said to the king and what the king said to you, keeping nothing back and we will not put you to death;
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Jeremiah 38:26
Then you are to say to them, I made my request to the king, that he would not send me back to my death in Jonathan's house.
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Jeremiah 38:27
Then all the rulers came to Jeremiah, questioning him: and he gave them an answer in the words the king had given him orders to say. So they said nothing more to him; for the thing was not made public.
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Jeremiah 38:28
So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen till the day when Jerusalem was taken.
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