24:037:007 Thus saith the lord, the God of Israel;
Thus shall ye say to
the
king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of
me;
Behold,
Pharaoh’s army, which is come forth to help you,
shall
return
to Egypt into their own land.
24:037:008 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and
fight against this
city,
and take it, and burn it with fire.
24:037:009 Thus saith the lord; Deceive not yourselves,
saying, The
Chaldeans
shall surely depart from us: for they shall not
depart.
24:037:010 For though ye had smitten the whole army
of the Chaldeans that
fight
against you, and there remained but wounded men among
them,
yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and
burn
this
city with fire.
24:037:011 And it came to pass, that when the army
of the Chaldeans was
broken
up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,
24:037:012 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem
to go into the land
of
Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of
the
people.
24:037:013 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin,
a captain of the ward
was
there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah,
the
son
of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
Thou
fallest away to the Chaldeans.
24:037:014 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall
not away to the
Chaldeans.
But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took
Jeremiah,
and brought him to the princes.
24:037:015 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah,
and smote him,
and
put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe:
for
they
had made that the prison.
24:037:016 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon,
and into the
cabins,
and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
24:037:017 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him
out: and the king
asked
him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word
from
the lord? And Jeremiah said, There is:
for, said he, thou
shalt
be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
24:037:018 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah,
What have I
offended
against thee, or against thy servants, or against
this
people, that ye have put me in prison?
24:037:019 Where are now your prophets which prophesied
unto you, saying,
The
king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against
this
land?
24:037:020 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord
the king: let my
supplication,
I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou
cause
me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe,
lest
I die there.


