Jeremiah 38:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ then you shall say to them, ‘I was presenting my plea to the king not to send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Then you shall say to them, I was presenting to the king my humble plea that he would not send me back to Jonathan's house to die there.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁶ you should say to them, ‘I was begging the king not to send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ then you shall say to them: 'I presented my supplication before the king, so that he would not order me to be led back to the house of Jonathan, to die there.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ Thou shalt say to them: I presented my supplication before the king that he would not command me to be carried back into the house of Jonathan, to die there.

Jeremiah 38:26 Cross References

Esther 4:8

Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther, explain it to her, and charge her to go to the king to make supplication to him and to entreat him for her people.

Jeremiah 37:15

The officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of the secretary Jonathan, for it had been made a prison.

Jeremiah 37:20

Now please hear me, my lord king: be good enough to listen to my plea, and do not send me back to the house of the secretary Jonathan to die there.”

Jeremiah 38:27

All the officials did come to Jeremiah and questioned him, and he answered them in the very words the king had commanded. So they stopped questioning him, for the conversation had not been overheard.

Jeremiah 42:2

the prophet Jeremiah and said, “Be good enough to listen to our plea, and pray to the Lord your God for us—for all this remnant. For there are only a few of us left out of many, as your eyes can see.