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to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?
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So Zedekiah the king sware
secretly unto Jeremiah, saying,
As
the L
ORD
liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to
death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
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Then said Jeremiah
unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the L
ORD
, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go
forth unto the king of Babylon’s princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned
with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
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But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon’s
princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire,
and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
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And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am
afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they
mock me.
20
But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver
thee.
Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the
L
ORD
, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
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But if thou
refuse to go forth, this
is
the word that the L
ORD
hath shewed me:
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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.
23
So they shall bring out all thy wives and
thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the
hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
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Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.
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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:
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Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my
supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.
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Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these
words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not
perceived.
28
So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken:
and he was
there
when Jerusalem was taken.
CHAPTER 39
In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of
Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
2
And
in the eleventh year of
Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth
day
of the month, the city was broken up.
3
And all the
princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate,
even
Nergal-sharezer,
Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab- saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes
of the king of Babylon.
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And it came to pass,
that
when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war,
then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate
betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
5
But the Chaldeans’ army pursued
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